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At the west end of the grid, North Vancouver (now J. D. Ross) Substation first received power from the completed line on December 1, 1939. Image captions: Emplacing current transformer on 3-cycle circuit at J. D. Ross Substation. Unloading...
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From Vancouver the line turned north to Aberdeen, Wash., west to Ilwaco, Wash., and south connecting Vancouver with Portland, Oregon City, Salem, Albany, and Eugene.
Image captions: Constructing drainage facilities at the Chehalis... |
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Image captions: Engineers sag the conductor in tests on the Bonneville-Vancouver line. Inland Empire REA line crew working atop Mt. Spokane.
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Image captions: Willamette River crossing on the Vancouver-Eugene line. Bonneville Dam serves as background to this tower on the Bonneville-The Dalles Line.
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Image captions: Surveying party examines ice-damaged tower on the Bonneville-Vancouver line. Line foreman removes tag lines brom B pole (Bonneville-The Dalles line). Survey party for the Midway-Ellensburg line displays 1940 winter wear.
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Image caption: Tower errection along Shell Rock Mountain for the Bonneville-The Dalles line.
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Image captions: 1994 Connection jumpers on the St. Johns-Astoria line. A horse team is used to string conductor on the Walla Walla-Lewiston line.
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1942 By truck, horse and hand, BPA had laid over 2,736 miles of cable by 1945, connecting load points throughout Washington and Oregon.
Image captions: Stringing conductor on the Grand Coulee-Spokane line. Applying brake to conductor reel... |
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Image captions: Surveying the Grand Coulee-Spokane line. Construction on the Bonneville-Grand Coulee line. Scrub oak frames a tower along with the Bonneville-Midway line.
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Image captions: "Clipping-in" at the Columbia-Willamette River crossing. Snubbing conductors while pressing fittings (McNary-Ross line). J. D. Ross Substation-1943 additions.
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Image captions: Installing armor rods on 534-foot tower (Vancouver-Eugene line).
Gin pole construction in a springtime setting (Bonneville-Grand Coulee line #2).
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Image captions: Insulator is hoisted for installation. Ice-coated towers on the Big Eddy-Midway line.
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Image captions: 1943 Pole planting for the Walla Walla-Pendleton line. Suspension insulator on Bradford Island tower (Bonneville-Vancouver line). The conductor between these towers on the Grand Coulee-Snohomish line spans 3,600 feet.
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Image captions: An early but since revised and expanded BPA master grid plan.
Attaching "come-along on the Midway-Grand-Coulee line.
[page 135]: Experimental load break disconnect switch at Oregon City Substation. Image details: RAYMOND... |
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1947 Image captions: A toboggan is used to remove conductor vibration recorder.
Control line between Chief Joseph powerhouse and switchyard.
[for page 134]: Experimental load break disconnect switch at Oregon City Substation. |
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1950
Image captions: Armor rodding (McNary-Ross line). Post drilling (Boyer-Tillamook line). Agriculture flourishes along the right-of-way. |
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In 1951 BPA laid the first San Juan Islands cable. This cable, the longest ever manufactured at that time, was over 7 miles in length and weighed 19 lbs. per foot. Nine railroad cars carried the cable overland from New Jersey to Seattle.
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Image captions: Loading cable in the forward well of the Puget Sound Power & Light cable ship.
Preparing to cut the cable.
Coiling spare cable in a pit at Covington Substation on the mainland.
Just offshore — the start of the first Lopez...
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