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Photo shows the complex system of railroads and chuting employed to pour concrete the dams at Huntington Lake

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Title: Photo shows the complex system of railroads and chuting employed to pour concrete the dams at Huntington Lake
Date Created and/or Issued: 1917
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Photo shows the complex system of railroads and chuting employed to pour concrete the dams at Huntington Lake. Steam locomotives ran trains of three-yard dump cars from the mixing plant to each dam site. At the dam site the standard gauge trains dumped their concrete into one-yard dump cars that were pulled onto the dam on a narrow gauge track with a gasoline powered locomotive.
Type: image
Format: 1024599 Bytes
Extent: Copy negative
Identifier: 12 - 00067
276803
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll2/id/5482
Subject: Dams
Construction
Concrete
Railroad cars
Place: Huntington Lake (Calif.)
Fresno County (Calif.)
Source: Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives
Story of Big Creek
Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives, Huntington Digital Library

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