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Pacific Light & Power Corp. - San Joaquin & Eastern Railroad, Fresno County, California

Description: San Joaquin and Eastern Railroad Co. and Big Creek scenery; man fishing; woman and child outside tent cabin at Cascada; Bridge over Big Creek near Powerhouse 1 site; Powerhouse 1 under construction; Water line with Kerckhoff Dome overhead; Dam No. 4 site and near completion; Cascada Falls, Pitman Creek; Sawmill at reservoir site. Photographer: Pacific Light & Power Corporation.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1912 - 1913
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.

Pacific Light & Power Corp. - San Joaquin & Eastern Railroad

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Pacific Light & Power Corp. - San Joaquin & Eastern Railroad [Big Creek scenery, man fishing, woman & child outside tent cabin at Cascada, bridge over Big Creek near PH 1 site, PH 1 under construction, water line with Kerkhoff Dome overhead, weir, Dam 4 construction, forest cabin, Cascada Falls, Pitman Creek, sawmill at reservoir site.]

photCL SCE 13 - vol 018

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Pacific Light & Power Corp. - San Joaquin & Eastern Railroad; early Big Creek

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San Joaquin and Eastern Railroad Co. and Big Creek scenery. Only a few scenic shots of early Big Creek construction period remain in this album. The majority of the album was probably made up of San Joaquin and Eastern Railroad and 8 x 10 in. powerhouse photographs. Twenty-nine of these Powerhouse photos have been ripped from the pages and, taken from the albums. Only one railroad powerhouse photograph remains in the album. Photographer: Pacific Light & Power Corporation.

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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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Big Creek; San Joaquin & Eastern Railroad

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On spine of album: San Joaquin & Eastern Railroad, Auberry, Cascada, Clovis, Dog Team, Radio. Album begins with group of editors on San Joaquin and Eastern Railroad en route to Big Creek in 1923; Cascada Station; Auberry: machine shop, mess hall and penstock staging area; Cascada: mail room, school house, mess hall after fire, gas tanks, offices, hospital, recreation hall, warehouse dormitory, tennis court, boxing match, pole treating plant, construction of tunnel dump cars and concrete gun pipes, dance party, warehouse, laundry room, cookhouse, and two-story bunkhouse; Camp 38 hospital; Clovis: cottages, water tanks, and sawmill; Sled Dog Team, and horse drawn sleds; Camp 62: telegraph room; Camp 63 radio equipment; Camp 3 radio room. Photographer: Pacific Light & Power 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.

photCL SCE

Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek construction photos

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Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek construction photos [Big Creek construction - grading for hoist line, sawmill, railway grade construction, gravel pit & washer, Huntington Lake, east portal Tunnel #3, logging, Dam 2 and dam site 3, Camp 1, Big Creek at Powerhouse #1 site, train #103 arriving at Cascada, train leaving for El Prado, Cascada Falls on Pitman Creek, steam shovel, Cascada yards, Hoist #2, warehouse, planning mill, lumber yards.]

photCL SCE 13 - vol 012

Pacific Light & Power Corp. - San Joaquin & Eastern Railroad, Fresno County, California

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