I worked at Valmont Power station for a while. At some point someone was coping the pictures from the building of the old units, 1922 to about 1940. Not sure who the photographer is of the hundreds of photos. I no longer have acess to the rest of these, but at the time I copied about 20. There is no sky because the film at the time didn't pickup blue. They are not mine, I do not own them, but I think some of them are worth showing. Copy them if you want.


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Photo of tops of boilers and screw transfer of coal install

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Photo of the plant from across the lake

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Photo of the sub station in front of plant

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Photo of crusher building with crane, at some point (in the 40s I think) the wind blew the crane of the building

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Digging of the cooling lake

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1931 test crew, performed heatrate test on operations

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Digging of the cooling lake

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Construction

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After a coal explosion "a Puff" engineering was looking for the cause
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Aux turbine

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Cover off of the Aux Turbine

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Brick layers building the boiler around the internal parts
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Building turbine supports
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Digging the lake
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How to dig a Lake in 1923
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How to dig a Lake in 1923
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Lacombe sub station control room
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Photo of plant from what will be the lake
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Valmont machine shop
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