. The street railway review . ENGINES —CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY. ner and in the opinion of the chief engineer, R. ]. Hill, issuperior to any other for this kind of work. The load on the old station has become so great that eachmorning and evening one of the new dynamos is run to sup-ply a part of the feeder system. For this purpose a tempo-rary switch board has been erected. The new switch boardis Hearing completion and one can now get an idea of itshandsome appearance when finished. It is of black enameledslate with nickel plated trimmings and is 104 ft. in machine is to have a 2,000-
. The street railway review . ENGINES —CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY. ner and in the opinion of the chief engineer, R. ]. Hill, issuperior to any other for this kind of work. The load on the old station has become so great that eachmorning and evening one of the new dynamos is run to sup-ply a part of the feeder system. For this purpose a tempo-rary switch board has been erected. The new switch boardis Hearing completion and one can now get an idea of itshandsome appearance when finished. It is of black enameledslate with nickel plated trimmings and is 104 ft. in machine is to have a 2,000-ampere Weston wattmeterand with these an accurate record of the working of the stationcan be kept. Perhaps the most interesting instrument on theboard is the large ammeter which indicates the total currentof all the dynamos. It was made especially for this stationby the Weston company, and is said to be the largestammeter in the world on a 500-volt circuit. It registers to each arm depend three leather leather lined hooks;
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