Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Visual Materials
Photographs of Powerhouse 2 and 2A, Part Two. Views of auto transformers, substation, new 6600 V line, new bridge for powerhouse extension, Unit No. 4 with direct connected exciter, constructing new Unit No. 4, 150kV - 220kV Bushings, switchboard, installation of new Unit No. 4 penstock, concrete plant, incline batch cars, stand pipes, Unit No. 3 foundation, Unit No. 3 penstock install, valve house modification, rock crushing plant, Johnson Valve, assembly of new Unit No. 3, auto circuit breakers, 150kV Oil Switch, new hoist, autotransformers, and 11kV equipment, new Bus Bar installation, Governor No. 4; Camp No. 7 - telephone exchange, cottage, machine shop, warehouse, mess hall construction, sawmill; Camp No. 5 - forebay construction, batch plant, steam shovel excavating.
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Photographs of Powerhouse No. 1, Part Two. Photographs of drying transformers, 220kV bushings, damaged coils, new 220kV nameplates, Klydontograph, 66kV - 30kV construction substation, new 220kV autotransformer installations, hoisting transformers, 220 kV Towers, Substation, ruptured penstock, 4th Unit penstock installation, incline concrete batch cars, tunnel for Unit 4 penstock, 3rd Unit penstock installation, 4th unit flowline, incline hoist.
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Big Creek - Powerhouse #2, & 2a - maintenance [Exterior shots of PH #2, full shot of PH 2 & 2A, generator floor in PH 2, Unit 6 bucket failure (PH2) with close-ups of damage, damage to overhead crane from flying #10 bucket, PH 2-2A switch rack, Dam 5 intake trash rack cleaner, water rheostat test, transporting 220kV transformers, gatehouse, penstock "Y"s, rotor installation, PH2 Unit 3 winding failure, broken buckets]
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Big Creek Powerhouse 2A - Unit #5, showing assembly of 34" disc. valve, relief valve and servo motor, in plant 2A.
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Exterior shots of Powerhouse No. 2, full shot of Powerhouse 2 and 2A, generator floor in Powerhouse 2, Unit 6 bucket failure (Powerhouse 2) with close-ups of damage, damage to overhead crane from flying No. 10 bucket, Powerhouse 2-2A switch rack, Dam 5 intake trash rack cleaner, water rheostat test, transporting 220kV transformers, gate house, penstock "Y"s, rotor installation, Powerhouse 2.
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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.]
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