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Construction of Big Creek Powerhouse 1 and 2

Description: Construction of Big Creek Powerhouse No. 1 and No. 2 [Construction camps, Commissary, General Office, Engineers Building, gravel pit, crusher-washer plant, warehouses, cook house, dining hall, operator's cottages, bunkhouses, Hoist 2, locomotives No. 10 and No. 6, railroad roundhouse, water station, incline railway. Construction: pipeline, Dams 1, 2, & 3, Tunnel 2, west portal, and Adits.] Photographer: Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: November 1912 - January 1913
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Creator: Southern California Edison Company(Opens in new tab)
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Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek construction photos

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Early construction photographs of Big Creek, including grading for hoist line, sawmill, railway grade construction, gravel washer, reservoir from Dam 1 [Huntington Lake], east portal Tunnel No. 3, logging; Big Creek Dam 2 and Dam site 3; Big Creek Camp 1, gravel pit, gravel washer; Big Creek crossing at foot of incline [Powerhouse No. 1 site]; Train No. 103 at Cascada; Train leaving for El Prado; Cascada Falls on Pitman Creek; Cascada yards; Hoist No. 2; Warehouse, planning mill, and lumber yards. Photographs by Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation.

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Construction of Big Creek Powerhouse 1 and 2

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Construction of Big Creek Powerhouse 1 and 2 [Locomotive No. 11 in snow; snow survey; Construction Camps 1F, 2, 6, and 7; excavation tunnels 1 and 2; construction at Dams 1, 2, 3, and 4; penstock & flow-line construction; sawmill; gravel pit; incline railways; Cascada material staging.] Photographer: Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation.

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Pacific Light & Power Corp. - Big Creek early construction photos

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Early construction photographs of Big Creek. Includes views of gravel pit, sluicing Powerhouse No. 2 site; Powerhouse 1 under construction; Powerhouse 2 under construction; Units 1 and 2 at Powerhouse 1; Powerhouse 2 switchboard, generator, Hoist No. 2, oil switch room, 6600 V switch room, local service switchboard, generator assembly; Tunnel 2 - adit 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8; Intake to Tunnel 1, 9' flow pipe, west portal Tunnel 1, concreting surge tank at West Portal Tunnel 2. Photographs by Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation.

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Construction of Big Creek Powerhouse No. 1 and No. 2

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Photographs by Stone and Webster Construction Co. documenting construction of Big Creek Powerhouse No. 1 and Powerhouse No. 2 in Fresno Co., California. Job Order No. 1142

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Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek construction photos

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Early construction photographs of Big Creek, including Big Creek Camps 1, 1A, 1C, 1E, 1F, 2, 3, 4, 4A, 6, 7; Planing mill, cement warehouse, kitchen, sawmill, incline railroad, meat house, mess hall, road construction, machine shop and blacksmith, general office at Camp 2, general warehouse, construction of Crusher Washer Plant, hospital operating room at Camp 2, dining room, gravel storage, operator's cottage in snow, bunk houses, Dam 1 (and intake), Dam 2, and Dam 3. Photographs by Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation.

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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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