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dogdayz
01-28-2021, 03:31 PM
Dawson City, Yukon in 1898.

Note all the electrical poles and wiring. Dawson was well electrified many years before cities in the south. They had a steam generating plant that utilized three 150 hp marine boilers powering a Westinghouse turbine and burned fourteen cords of wood per day.

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