Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Big Creek Powerhouse #8 - Pumps & tanks for oil pressure governor control.
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Visual Materials
Big Creek - Powerhouse #8 (part 2) [Powerhouse #8 - Diversion, excavation for powerhouse, diversion tunnel construction, interior shots of PH #8 (transformers, control room, turbine-generator assembly, station power, Johnson Valve, turbine runner, crane assembly, scroll case assembly, draft tube); Penstock rupture - ripped Penstock, flattened pipe, damage to powerhouse and other facilities, reshaping pipe, adding reinforcing bands to high stress sections of penstock; Camp 33, operator dormitory, substation, incline construction.]
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Big Creek Powerhouse #8 - Operator at D.C. switchboard in Powerhouse #8 Big Creek
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Visual Materials
Big Creek Powerhouse #8 - Two vertical axis turbine generators on generator floor of powerhouse 8.
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Visual Materials
Big Creek - Powerhouse #8 (part 1) [Powerhouse 8, Dam 6, Camp 34, Camp 38, overview PH8 & penstock, milling PH8 draft tube, operator's cottage, forebay, sluicing tailrace, generator floor, switchboard, rocks washed into tailrace after penstock burst, Unit #2 at Pelton Water Wheel Co., generator & governor at PH8, penstock vent, transformers & bus, station power sets, switchboard, broken penstock, drilling tunnel #8, repaired penstock, steel forebay, Camp 32 Cookhouse, Johnson Valve, Camp 33.]
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Visual Materials
Big Creek Powerhouse #8 - Looking across Big Creek Channel towards Powerhouse. The lower section of the draft tube Unit #2 is being placed. Tailrace Cofferdam in lower right-hand corner. End of incline spur in upper right-hand corner.
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