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Long Beach Steam Station No. 2 and No. 3

Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: April 1926 - April 1927
Call number: photCL SCE
Creator: Southern California Edison Company(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Edison International, December 2005.
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Long Beach Steam Station No. 3

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Long Beach Steam Plant No. 1

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End of construction of Long Beach Steam Plant No. 1, including turbine installations, control rooms, transformers, cooling water system, plant start-up; Beginning construction for Plant No. 2, including excavation, driving piles for Plant 2 foundation.

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