This very rare photo shows a construction train on the S. J. & E. in the spring of 1912

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  The most difficult of surveying assignments at Big Creek was to run levels and alignments for tunnels across the rugged terrain of the back country

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  The most difficult of surveying assignments at Big Creek was to run levels and alignments for tunnels across the rugged terrain of the back country. Here, T.R. Bond and his party pose at an unidentified location, about 1912. [THIS IS NOT AN EDISON PHOTO! DO NOT USE THIS NEGATIVE FOR ANY PURPOSE WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM WILLIAM A. MYERS.]

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  This rare photo shows the 1893 construction of the original timberfaced, rock-filled dam that impounded the millpond for C.B. Shaver's pioneer lumbering venture at Shaver Lake

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  This rare photo shows the 1893 construction of the original timberfaced, rock-filled dam that impounded the millpond for C.B. Shaver's pioneer lumbering venture at Shaver Lake. Pg. 100. [Courtesy United States Forest Service, Shaver Lake.]

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  This view of the warehouses at Cascada shows the foot of the steep inclined railway (Incline #1) that was used to haul construction materials

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  This view of the warehouses at Cascada shows the foot of the steep inclined railway (Incline #1) that was used to haul construction materials up to "The Basin," site of Huntington Lake reservoir. The little steam engine switching carloads of steel pipe at the right of the picture is #4, a refugee from the Manhattan Elevated Railway.

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  The most difficult job on a survey crew was that of "axeman."

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  The most difficult job on a survey crew was that of "axeman." These men cleared away underbrush to provide the surveyors with a clear line of sight. This photo shows a survey party engaged in clearing a line for the construction of the San Joaquin and Eastern Railroad early in 1912. [THIS IS NOT AN EDISON PHOTO! DO NOT USE THIS PHOTO FOR ANY PURPOSE W/OUT WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM Wm. MYERS!]

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  The first few miles of the S. J. & E. were easy to construct

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  The first few miles of the S. J. & E. were easy to construct, but as the Sierra foothills were reached, heavy cutting and filling became necessary. This crew stopped long enough to have their picture taken at "the front," somewhere near Dry Creek, early in 1912.

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  Valley Junction Substation was the largest substation on the Pacific Electric system

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