Location: Castaic (Calif.) / Subject: Construction workers--California--Los Angeles County - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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Description:: 9-foot-high, 4-foot-wide tire. One-of-a-kind 125-ton vehicle that does nothing but push another machine along a rocky canyon floor about 45 miles northwest of Los Angeles. They are part of a fleet of giant earth-moving equipment, mobilized by the Western Contracting Corp. of Sioux Falls, S.D., to work on the monumental Castaic Dam and Reservoir, the southern terminus of the 44-mile California Aqueduct being built in a $2.8 billion State Water Project.
Date:: July 8, 1970
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Montney, Cal
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection