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Big Creek - Tunnels

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Description: Big Creek - Tunnels [Tunnel 3 - intake construction, 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 carry sluicing water at outlet, guests standing in 18' penstock, sluicing tunnel; Stevenson Creek, Camp 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 & 38 compressors, Camp 38 mess hall, Camp 33; Cascada - Baldwin 15 ton locomotive #4; Tunnel 8 construction, Adit 1; Intake at Dam 1 repairs.]
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1920-1926
Call number: photCL SCE 13 - vol 026
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