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Pacific Light & Power Corp. - Big Creek early construction photos
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Pacific Light & Power Corp. - Big Creek early construction photos
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Early construction photographs of Big Creek. Includes views of gravel pit, sluicing Powerhouse No. 2 site; Powerhouse 1 under construction; Powerhouse 2 under construction; Units 1 and 2 at Powerhouse 1; Powerhouse 2 switchboard, generator, Hoist No. 2, oil switch room, 6600 V switch room, local service switchboard, generator assembly; Tunnel 2 - adit 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8; Intake to Tunnel 1, 9' flow pipe, west portal Tunnel 1, concreting surge tank at West Portal Tunnel 2. Photographs by Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation.
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Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek PH 1 construction
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Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek PH 1 construction [Excavation for Powerhouse 1 site and penstock path, PH1 in framing stages, snow at PH1, pouring concrete for PH1, concreting Dam #1, snow plow on railroad, transformer tanks, clearing for transmission line, PH1: switchboards, transformers, oil switches, pressing Unit 1 rotor, generation room, bus room, Unit 1 shaft on bearings, pressing runner on shaft, tanking transformer cores, sub-floor wire conduit layout, 150kV Bus Room.]
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Pacific Light & Power Corp. - Big Creek construction
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Pacific Light & Power Corp. - Big Creek construction [Construction Camps 1, 1A, 1C, 1E, 1F, 2, 3, 4, 4A, 6, 7, ; Planning Mill, Cement Warehouse, Kitchen, Saw Mill, Incline RR, Meat House, Mess Hall, road construction, Machine Shop & Blacksmith, General Office at Camp 2, General Warehouse, Crusher Washer Plant, Hospital Operating Room (Camp 2), Dining Room, Commissary, gravel storage, operator's cottage in snow, bunk houses, Dam 1 (& intake), Dam 2, and Dam 3.]
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Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek construction photos
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Early construction photographs of Big Creek, including construction of Penstock 2 and Powerhouse 2; East portal Tunnel 4; Adit 5, backfill on flowline, incline railroad No. 2, Adit 3 Tunnel 2, 84" flowline installation, site for Powerhouse No. 2, Penstock No. 1, and Powerhouse 1 construction. Photographs by Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation.
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Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek construction photos
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Early construction photographs of Big Creek, including Powerhouse No. 2 construction, including pouring walls and sluicing below Powerhouse No. 2; Camp 7; crushing plant; generator room; Construction at Dams No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 and No. 4; Intake at Dam 1. Photographs by Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation.
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Big Creek - Early Big Creek
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Big Creek - Early Big Creek [Substations; Big Creek - PH 1 and PH 2 penstock construction, Huntington Lodge & Lake, heavy snowfall, break in PH1 penstock joint, const. Dam #1 & gate tower, Dam 1 spilling, Dam #2 const., Dam #4 const., PH1 const., PH1 interior, PH2 const., PH2 after fire, PH2 interiors (Units & Transformers), unit install PH1, incline RR, railroad locomotives, Big Creek transmission line const.; Magunden Sub.; Kern T/L poles, line and RR wash out at Arroyo Seco; Long Beach Steam Plant; Los Angeles Aquiduct and Powerhouse; PL&P vehicles; Intake Azusa Plant, Azusa PH interior; Highgrove forebay & Powerhouse; Stone Castle; Sierra Powerhouse interior, operator's cottages; Pedley Powerhouse (ext. & int.), Mentone PH; Borel Powerhouse]
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