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Long Beach Steam Station No. 3

Description: Long Beach Steam Station No. 3 turbo installation, Boiler No. 50, laying 15" gas main, driving piles for Unit No. 11, take-off towers, towers at channel crossing, installing transformers and oil switches, switching garden, [cooling water] intake, gauge board, switchboard, station overviews, turbine deck, boiler interior, defective pump, evaporators, chemistry lab, fuel oil pump room, exciter, piles ready for steel.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: April 1928 - February 1929
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.

Long Beach Steam Station

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Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 3 construction photos, turbo installation, Boiler #50, laying 15" gas main, to L.B.S.S., driving piles for Unit #11, take-off towers, towers at channel crossing, installing transformers and oil switches, Switching Garden, [cooling water] intake, gauge board, switchboard, station overviews, turbine deck, boiler interior, defective pump, evaporators, chemistry lab., fuel oil pump room, exciter, piles ready for steel.

photCL SCE 13 - vol 092

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Long Beach Steam Station No. 3

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Long Beach Steam Station No. 3 construction, including superheater, header, boiler assembly, skylight over Turbo Room, flue opening, stacks, view of all 3 plants, installing 83 ton transformers, Turbine Room interior, circulating water pumps, condenser installation, boiler interior, aerials of station, concrete girder reinforcement, exciter, oil switches, switch garden, control house, screen wells.

photCL SCE

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Long Beach Steam Station

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Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 3 construction photos, superheater, header, boiler assembly, skylight over Turbo Room, flu opening, stacks, view of all 3 plants, installing 83 ton transformers, Turbine Room interior, circulating water pumps, condenser installation, boiler interior, aerials of station, concrete girder reinforcement, exciter, oil switches, switch garden, control house, screen wells.

photCL SCE 13 - vol 094

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Long Beach Steam Plant No. 1

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Construction and operation of Long Beach Steam Plant No. 1: boiler installation, pile driving, train derailment at steam station, specimens of marine growth from intake tunnel, overviews of Steam Station, extension of Plant No. 1, dismantling old Long Beach Gas Plant, foundation work for Unit No. 2.

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Long Beach Steam Station, Plant #3

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Long Beach Steam Station, Plant #3 - Pump House for boiler fuel oil.

photCL SCE 02 - 15747

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Long Beach Steam Station No. 2 and No. 3

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Condenser installation, stacks, south elevation poured, turbo installations, turbo room construction, boiler room construction, bricking the boilers, exterior shot complete with 8 stacks on Plant 2, control room. Piles placed for Plant 3 construction, moving above ground fuel storage tank by floating.

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Long Beach Steam Station No. 3

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