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Big Creek Powerhouse #8
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Big Creek Powerhouse #8
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Big Creek Powerhouse #8 - General building [generator room with partial covering of powerhouse with temporary corrigated metal panels. Most of these panels were washed away when the penstock ruptured 18 days later.]
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Big Creek Powerhouse #8
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Big Creek Powerhouse #8 - Two vertical axis turbine generators on generator floor of powerhouse 8.
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Big Creek Powerhouse #8
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Big Creek Powerhouse #8 - [Operator with hand on governor control next to Generator unit in Powerhouse 8]
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Big Creek Powerhouse #8
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Big Creek Powerhouse #8 - [Francis type Generator in Powerhouse 8]
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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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Big Creek: Powerhouse No. 8 (part 2)
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Powerhouse No. 8, Part Two. Photographs of Powerhouse 8 diversion, excavation for powerhouse, diversion tunnel construction, interior shots of Powerhouse No. 8 (transformers, control room, turbine-generator assembly, station power, Johnson Valve, turbine runner, crane assembly, scroll case assembly, draft tube); Penstock rupture - ripped Penstock, flattened pipe, damage to powerhouse and other facilities, reshaping pipe, adding reinforcing bands to high stress sections of penstock; Camp 33, operator dormitory, substation, incline construction.
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