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    Big Creek: Tunnels

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    Tunnels 1, 3, and 8, including intake construction at Tunnel 3, portal adit Camp 36, Camp 35 adit, outlet portal, Penstock 3 portal structure and manifold, surge chamber, drill sharpeners, connecting 18' penstock to manifold, butterfly valve house, flume to sluicing water at outlet, guests standing in 18' penstock, sluicing tunnel; Stevenson Creek, Camps 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 and 38 compressors, Camp 38 mess hall, Camp 33; Cascada - Baldwin 15 ton locomotive No. 4; Tunnel 8 construction, Adit 1; Intake at Dam 1 repairs.

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  • F.P.C. Vol 3, Projects 67 & 120 - Construction Big Creek Powerhouse 3 and construction camps

    F.P.C. Vol 3, Projects 67 & 120 - Construction Big Creek Powerhouse 3 and construction camps

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    F.P.C. Vol 3, Projects 67 & 120 - Construction Big Creek Powerhouse 3 and construction camps. [Tunnel 3 - intake construction, portal adit Camp 36, Camp 35 adit, outlet portal, Penstock 3 portal structure and manifold, surge chamber, drill sharpeners, connecting 18' penstock to manifold, butterfly valve house, flume to carry sluicing water at outlet, surge chamber, Powerhouse 3 construction, installation of 3 penstocks, turbine and generator installations at PH #3, 220 kV switchyard.]

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    F.P.C. Vol. 3, Projects 67 and 120 - Construction of Big Creek Powerhouse 3 and construction camps

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    Construction of Powerhouse 3 and construction camps 1 to 54. Views include Tunnel 3, including intake construction, portal adit Camp 36, Camp 35 adit, outlet portal; Penstock 3 portal structure and manifold, surge chamber, drill sharpeners, connecting 18' penstock to manifold, butterfly valve house, flume to railroad sluicing water at outlet; Tunnel 3 excavation; Surge chamber construction; Construction views of Powerhouse 3, installation of 3 penstocks, turbine and generator installations at No. 3; Construction of 220kV switchyard.

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  • Big Creek - Construction on Florence Lake (Ward) Tunnel

    Big Creek - Construction on Florence Lake (Ward) Tunnel

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    Big Creek - [Construction on Florence Lake (Ward) Tunnel - Adit, Electric train, concrete batch cars, group photos, powder magazine, setting drills, firing switches, steam shovel, tunnel mucking, tunnel breakthrough, tunnel mess train, first round at intake portal, intake portal, outlet portal with flow, outlet flume washout; Camps 31, 60, 61, 62, 63 - Library, bath house, housing, Kangaroo Court, boxing match, tool sharpening shop, hospital, office, kitchen, cold storage, ice house, warehouse, dining room, sawmill, Editor's Party, transmission line, blacksmith shop; Huntington Lake - Daw's Cottage; Cascada - Recreation Hall.]

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  • Big Creek - Powerhouse #8 (part 1)

    Big Creek - Powerhouse #8 (part 1)

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    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.]

    photCL SCE 13 - vol 034

  • Big Creek Powerhouse #3 - Tunnel #3 outlet portal

    Big Creek Powerhouse #3 - Tunnel #3 outlet portal

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    Big Creek Powerhouse #3 - Tunnel #3 outlet portal - excavation for manifold - Camp 37 in background.

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