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Big Creek: Powerhouse No. 8 (part 1)
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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.]
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Big Creek: Powerhouse No. 8 (part 2)
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Powerhouse No. 8, Part Two. Photographs of Powerhouse 8 diversion, excavation for powerhouse, diversion tunnel construction, interior shots of Powerhouse No. 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 No. 2 and 2a (part 2)
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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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Big Creek: Powerhouse No. 1 (part 1)
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Photographs of Powerhouse No. 1, Part One. Views include generator floor, exterior with extension, close-up of Powerhouse 1, generator repairs, Unit 3 penstock construction, riveting penstock, transformer rack, substation, exterior before extension, extension construction, hoist house interior, assembly of Units 3 and 4, change to 220 kV transformers.
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Big Creek: Powerhouse No. 3 (part 1)
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Photographs of Powerhouse No. 3, Part 1. Construction photographs of 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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Big Creek: Hydro-electric project photo postcard album
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Album of photographic postcards of Big Creek and its infrastructure, as well as other hydroelectric projects, including Powerhouse 1 and 2, exciter, gate control, generator floor, Cascada cottages, Dam No. 4, San Joaquin and Eastern Railroad train nearing Cascada, train coming into Cascada station, Bear Creek, Pitman Creek, Magunden Substation; Kaweah No. 3 Switchboard; Toronto Power Co. - Niagara Powerhouse generator floor, Transformer Station, No. 8 Governor, Switchboards, switchrack, magnetic relays, forebay; Front Street Power Station.
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