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Big Creek: Early Big Creek construction; Eagle Rock Substation

Description: Construction of Eagle Rock Substation, including monthly progress views from clearing land to completion, 1913-1914; Erection of Big Creek transmission lines through Newhall, Saugus, Bakersfield, Castaic, Sunland Valley, Verdugo Wash, Tujunga Wash, 1913; Telephone Line North of Newhall showing tree on Gregg property, 1915; Suspension Insulators on Tejon Ranch, 1915; Transmission lines on rancher property, Bakersfield area, 1915; Magunden Substation, 1916; Big Creek construction views, 1913.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1912 - 1916
Call number: photCL SCE
Creator: Southern California Edison Company(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Edison International, December 2005.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Big Creek: Early Big Creek and other Edison facilities

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Substations; Big Creek Powerhouse 1 and Powerhouse 2 construction and penstock construction, Huntington Lodge and Huntington Lake, heavy snowfall, break in Powerhouse 1 penstock joint, Construction of Dam 1, 2, and 4; incline railroad, railroad locomotives, Construction of Big Creek transmission line; Magunden Substation; Kern transmission line poles, line and railroad wash out at Arroyo Seco; Long Beach Steam Plant; Los Angeles Aqueduct and Powerhouse; Pacific Light and Power vehicles; Intake Azusa Plant, Azusa Powerhouse interior; Highgrove forebay and Powerhouse; Stone Castle; Sierra Powerhouse interior, operator's cottages; Pedley Powerhouse; Mentone Powerhouse; Borel Powerhouse.

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Construction of Eagle Rock Substation

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Photographs by Stone and Webster Construction Co. documenting the construction of Eagle Rock Substation, in Eagle Rock, California. Job Order No. 1343

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Construction of Big Creek Powerhouse 1 and 2

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Construction of Big Creek Powerhouse 1 and 2: Sluicing construction sites; Camp 2 Warehouse; Meat storage and butchers; Concrete mixers; Camps 3, 6, and 7; Adit 2, and 3; Cascada yards; Transmission line construction; Excavation and construction at Dams 1, 2, 3, and 4, flowline, penstocks, surge shaft; Incline railway; Tunnels 1, and 2; Huntington Lake. Photographer: Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation.

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Big Creek and Kern River

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Coyote Lake at head of Big Creek; Big Creek [cascade above Powerhouse1 site], Stevenson Creek Falls, Thousand Island Lake; Borel Powerhouse and cottages; Borel interior with the original 5 Pelton Waterwheel unit], Kern Substation, Indian Substation, Newhall Substation; Azusa hydroelectric Plant; Sierra hydroelectric Plant; Mentone hydroelectric Plant; Redondo Steam Plant.

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Early construction at Big Creek, Tule River and Kern River

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Album compiled by Edison employee containing professional and amateur photographs of Borel interior with Pelton-Francis turbines; Excavation for Big Creek Powerhouse No. 2; Huntington Lake construction for Trestle Dam 1, Dam 2; start of construction at Powerhouse No. 1 and Dam 4, installation of equipment at Powerhouse 1, penstock assembly, completion of Dam 4; construction of Big Creek Powerhouse 2; construction of Powerhouse No. 8, constructing road to Powerhouse 3, and Tule Powerhouse.

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Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek construction photos

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Early construction photographs of Big Creek, including excavation for Powerhouse 1 site and penstock path, steel up for Powerhouse1 walls, Powerhouse1 in framing stages, Powerhouse1 construction site covered with snow, concrete chutes for Powerhouse1, concreting Dam No. 1, snow plow on railroad, transformer tanks, clearing for transmission line, Powerhouse1: 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.

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Big Creek: Early Big Creek construction; Eagle Rock Substation

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