Big Creek; San Joaquin & Eastern Railroad | Collections | The Huntington

Big Creek; San Joaquin & Eastern Railroad | Collections | The Huntington

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Big Creek, San Joaquin & Eastern Railroad
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Big Creek, San Joaquin & Eastern Railroad - [Editor's party on SJ&E Railway, SJ&E passenger car 501, rail yard, construction work on railroad, Cascada Station; Auberry - machine shop, mess hall, commissary, & penstock staging area; Cascada - mail room, school house, commissary, mess hall after fire, gas tanks, offices, hospital, recreation hall, warehouse, dormitory, tennis court, boxing match, pole treating plant, building tunnel dump cars, building concrete gun pipes, dance party, laundry room, cookhouse, & 2 story bunkhouse; Camp 38 hospital; Clovis - cottages, water tanks, & sawmill; Sled Dog Team, and horse drawn sleds; Camp 62 - Telegraph room; Camp 63 radio equipment; Camp 3 radio room]
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Employee album of Big Creek
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Photographs of Big Creek compiled by Edison employee, Perry Hornsby, including Powerhouse 3 control room, Cascada Drug Store, Accounting Office, Mess Hall, Powerhouse3 generator floor, Camps 63 and 65, School House, Clubhouse/dormitory, Powerhouse 1 in snow, Dam 6, Powerhouse 3, Huntington Lake Lodge, Hospital, sled dog team, tunnel work, and Florence Lake.
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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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Big Creek: Tunnels
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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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Employee album: Perry Hornsby's family photos and Big Creek
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Photographs of Big Creek compiled by Edison employee, Perry Hornsby, including views of compressor house, sled dog team, Camp 33, 35, 38, and 61, General Office, Huntington Lodge, mess hall, Stevenson Creek Falls, Shaver Sawmill, San Joaquin and Eastern Climax locomotive No. 107, hoist; construction at Dam 5, Dam 6, Intake 3, Powerhouse 3, Powerhouse 8, diver at intake, Penstock blow-out at Powerhouse 8; Kern River No. 3 construction.
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Big Creek #1
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Big Creek #1 - Cascada Mess Hall after fire. Camp 3
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