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Pacific Light & Power Corp. - San Joaquin & Eastern Railroad, Fresno County, California
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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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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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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.
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Big Creek: Hydro-electric project photo postcard album
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Album of photographic postcards of Big Creek and its infrastructure, as well as other hydroelectric projects, including Powerhouse 1 and 2, exciter, gate control, generator floor, Cascada cottages, Dam No. 4, San Joaquin and Eastern Railroad train nearing Cascada, train coming into Cascada station, Bear Creek, Pitman Creek, Magunden Substation; Kaweah No. 3 Switchboard; Toronto Power Co. - Niagara Powerhouse generator floor, Transformer Station, No. 8 Governor, Switchboards, switchrack, magnetic relays, forebay; Front Street Power Station.
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California Electric Power Corp. - Nevada-California Electric Corp.: Bishop Creek hydroelectric project
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Intake 2 Reservoir on North Fork Bishop Creek, Dam site - Reservoir No. 2, Lake on Middle Fork of Bishop Creek (Reservoir No. 1), dam site Reservoir No. 1, dam and intake, wood stave flowline, construction of a Bishop Creek Powerhouse [looks like Plant No. 4].
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