Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Big Creek Huntington Lake Dams - Gravel car [on railroad filled with load of rock]
photCL SCE 02 - 04834
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Photo shows the complex system of railroads and chuting employed to pour concrete the dams at Huntington Lake. Steam locomotives ran trains of three-yard dump cars from the mixing plant to each dam site. At the dam site the standard gauge trains dumped their concrete into one-yard dump cars that were pulled onto the dam on a narrow gauge track with a gasoline powered locomotive.
photCL SCE 12 - 00067
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Big Creek Huntington Lake Dams - Rock crusher - revolving grate
photCL SCE 02 - 04771
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Big Creek Huntington Lake Dams - Rock crusher - revolving grate
photCL SCE 02 - 04772
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Big Creek Huntington Lake Dams - Theu Steam Shovel 5/8 cu. yd. capacity. [with locomotive #5 at dam construction site]
photCL SCE 02 - 04765
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Big Creek Huntington Lake Dams - Side dump railcar #133
photCL SCE 02 - 04736
