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
Powerhouse 1 and penstocks, Dam 4 sluicing, switchrack, switchboards in Powerhouse 1, Unit 1 fire, bucket strain-gauge test, bucket molds, bucket repairs, lapping journals, coil replacements in stator, rebuilding Unit 4, removing rotor for repair, break in penstock at Powerhouse 1, debris and boulders that washed into the powerhouse after penstock break, and details of ripped penstock.
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Visual Materials
Big Creek - Early Big Creek [Substations; Big Creek - PH 1 and PH 2 penstock construction, Huntington Lodge & Lake, heavy snowfall, break in PH1 penstock joint, const. Dam #1 & gate tower, Dam 1 spilling, Dam #2 const., Dam #4 const., PH1 const., PH1 interior, PH2 const., PH2 after fire, PH2 interiors (Units & Transformers), unit install PH1, incline RR, railroad locomotives, Big Creek transmission line const.; Magunden Sub.; Kern T/L poles, line and RR wash out at Arroyo Seco; Long Beach Steam Plant; Los Angeles Aquiduct and Powerhouse; PL&P vehicles; Intake Azusa Plant, Azusa PH interior; Highgrove forebay & Powerhouse; Stone Castle; Sierra Powerhouse interior, operator's cottages; Pedley Powerhouse (ext. & int.), Mentone PH; Borel Powerhouse]
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Visual Materials
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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Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek PH 1 construction [Excavation for Powerhouse 1 site and penstock path, PH1 in framing stages, snow at PH1, pouring concrete for PH1, concreting Dam #1, snow plow on railroad, transformer tanks, clearing for transmission line, PH1: switchboards, transformers, oil switches, pressing Unit 1 rotor, generation room, bus room, Unit 1 shaft on bearings, pressing runner on shaft, tanking transformer cores, sub-floor wire conduit layout, 150kV Bus Room.]
photCL SCE 13 - vol 016
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Visual Materials
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 #3 (part 1) [first forms up on powerhouse, staging and concrete plant, Switching Station, powerhouse steel framework, generator floor, draft tube construction, incline, views from above, penstock construction, Tunnel 3, CO2 equipment on Unit 3, Penstock binding, dispatcher's building, manifold assembly, oil circuit breakers, transformers, Dam 6 spilling, completed Powerhouse 3.]
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