US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
9-foot-high, 4-foot-wide tire. One-of-a-kind 125-ton vehicle that does nothing but push another machine along a rocky canyon floor about 45 miles northwest of Los Angeles. They are part of a fleet of giant earth-moving equipment, mobilized by the Western Contracting Corp. of Sioux Falls, S.D., to work on the monumental Castaic Dam and Reservoir, the southern terminus of the 44-mile California Aqueduct being built in a $2.8 billion State Water Project. SPEAKING OF WIDETRACKS--A 9-foot-high front tire of "pusher" dwarfs foreman Bert Tolbert.
Type
image
Format
b&w negative
Identifier
uclalat_1429_b656_264249 ark:/21198/zz0002w31s
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Construction workers--California--Los Angeles County Environment Earthmoving machinery--California--Los Angeles County Dams--Design and construction
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