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Big Creek: Early Big Creek and other Edison facilities
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Big Creek - Early Big Creek
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Big Creek - Early Big Creek [Substations; Big Creek - PH 1 and PH 2 penstock construction, Huntington Lodge & Lake, heavy snowfall, break in PH1 penstock joint, const. Dam #1 & gate tower, Dam 1 spilling, Dam #2 const., Dam #4 const., PH1 const., PH1 interior, PH2 const., PH2 after fire, PH2 interiors (Units & Transformers), unit install PH1, incline RR, railroad locomotives, Big Creek transmission line const.; Magunden Sub.; Kern T/L poles, line and RR wash out at Arroyo Seco; Long Beach Steam Plant; Los Angeles Aquiduct and Powerhouse; PL&P vehicles; Intake Azusa Plant, Azusa PH interior; Highgrove forebay & Powerhouse; Stone Castle; Sierra Powerhouse interior, operator's cottages; Pedley Powerhouse (ext. & int.), Mentone PH; Borel Powerhouse]
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Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek construction photos
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Early construction photographs of Big Creek, including excavation for Powerhouse 1 site and penstock path, steel up for Powerhouse1 walls, Powerhouse1 in framing stages, Powerhouse1 construction site covered with snow, concrete chutes for Powerhouse1, concreting Dam No. 1, snow plow on railroad, transformer tanks, clearing for transmission line, Powerhouse1: switchboards, transformers, oil switches, pressing Unit 1 rotor, generation room, bus room, Unit 1 shaft on bearings, pressing runner on shaft, tanking transformer cores, sub-floor wire conduit layout, 150kV Bus Room.
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Early construction at Big Creek, Tule River and Kern River
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Album compiled by Edison employee containing professional and amateur photographs of Borel interior with Pelton-Francis turbines; Excavation for Big Creek Powerhouse No. 2; Huntington Lake construction for Trestle Dam 1, Dam 2; start of construction at Powerhouse No. 1 and Dam 4, installation of equipment at Powerhouse 1, penstock assembly, completion of Dam 4; construction of Big Creek Powerhouse 2; construction of Powerhouse No. 8, constructing road to Powerhouse 3, and Tule Powerhouse.
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Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek construction photos
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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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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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F.P.C. Vol. 4, Projects 67 and 120
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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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