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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Tunnels 1, 3, and 8, including intake construction at Tunnel 3, 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 sluicing water at outlet, guests standing in 18' penstock, sluicing tunnel; Stevenson Creek, Camps 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 and 38 compressors, Camp 38 mess hall, Camp 33; Cascada - Baldwin 15 ton locomotive No. 4; Tunnel 8 construction, Adit 1; Intake at Dam 1 repairs.
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Construction of Big Creek Powerhouse 1 and 2: Camp 7; meat house; Tunnels 3 and 4 east portal; Flowline; Dams 1, 2, 3, and 4; Powerhouse 1 and Powerhouse 2 switchboards; Oil switches; High tension bushings; Stand pipes and surge chamber. Photographer: Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation.
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Early construction photographs of Big Creek, including construction of Penstock 2 and Powerhouse 2; East portal Tunnel 4; Adit 5, backfill on flowline, incline railroad No. 2, Adit 3 Tunnel 2, 84" flowline installation, site for Powerhouse No. 2, Penstock No. 1, and Powerhouse 1 construction. Photographs by Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation.
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Transportation, Vincent Transmission Line, and Stream gaging. San Joaquin and Eastern Railroad; Incline railroads at Big Creek Powerhouse No. 2, Powerhouse No. 3, and Powerhouse No. 8, Project 3 road construction in San Joaquin Canyon; winter transportation service, road construction for Florence Lake and Tunnel project; Trucks at Mono-Bear siphon; Vincent Transmission Line construction; Stream gauging; Mammoth Pool dam site; Westside projects, Powerhouse 8 Transmission Line; Views of Big Creek general office, machine shop, and radio room; Huntington Lake; Big Creek Powerhouse No. 1 and penstocks; Boylston Street drafting room during the peak of Big Creek construction; Eagle-Bell transmission line; Long Beach Steam Station.
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Big Creek Powerhouse #3 - Tunnel #3 outlet portal - excavation for manifold - Camp 37 in background.
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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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