slgwv's photos with the keyword: electrical

A coal-fired electrical generation plant about 50 miles NNE of Las Vegas, Nevada, the primary market for its power. It has been greatly modified and enlarged since it was built in the late 60s or so. At least the stack scrubbers seem to be working today--

Bodie, California, USA. Bodie was the first Western mining camp of any size to electrify, in the early 1890s. They built a dam and hydroelectric generating station on Green Creek, in the Sierras, and ran a powerline to Bodie, a straight-line distance of 15 miles or so. The state of electrical knowledge was so primitive that they thought they had to keep the line as straight as possible, because electricity would spill off the corners! This was probably the sort of big motor that ran things like the lathe (next pic) with an external belt.

OSHA would have a fit... Bodie, California, USA. As I mentioned, Bodie was one of the first camps to electrify, in the 1890s. They built a hydropower plant on Green Creek in the Sierra Nevada, about 15 straight-line miles away, and ran a line straight to Bodie. "Straight" literally--the state of electrical knowledge was so primitive they thought they had to keep the powerline as straight as possible, so electricity wouldn't spill off at the corners!

Bodie, California, USA. See adjacent caption for description of Bodie's electrification.