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 No. 3, Part 2. Views of generator floor with Units 1, 2, and 3 installed, excavation of Powerhouse 3 site with steam shovel and high pressure water gun, Switchyard construction, turbine parts, battery room, construction of penstocks, turbine assembly. Also penstock construction for Unit 3, Powerhouse No. 1 .
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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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Construction Big Creek Powerhouse 1 and 2 [Huntington Lake sawmill & logging; Camps 1a, 2, 6, & 7; Dams 1, 3, & 4; incline railways; penstocks; flow pipes; PH 1 & PH 2 (interiors & exteriors); Tunnel 1; incline railways.]
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Big Creek - Powerhouse #2 & 2a (part 2) [Powerhouse 2 & 2A - auto transformers, substation, new 6.6kV line, new bridge for powerhouse extension, Unit #4 with direct connected exciter, constructing new Unit #4, 150kV - 220kV Bushings, switchboard, installation of new Unit #4 penstock, concrete plant, incline batch cars, stand pipes, Unit #3 foundation, Unit #3 penstock install, valve house modification, rock crushing plant, Johnson Valve, assembly of new Unit #3, auto circuit breakers, 150kV Oil Switch, new hoist, auto-transformers, and 11kV equipment, new Bus Bar installation, Governor #4; Camp #7 - telephone exchange, cottage, machine shop, warehouse, mess hall construction, sawmill; Camp #5 - forebay construction, batch plant, steam shovel excavating.]
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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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Photographs of Powerhouse 2 and 2A, Part Three. Construction at Powerhouse 2A, images depicting the fabrication of seamless steel pressure pipe [penstock] sections, forging hollow steel blocks into pipe, machining seamless steel pipe sections to proper thickness, pressure testing pipe sections, assembly of penstock sections and valves at Powerhouse 2A.
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