. Electric railway journal . onsolidation in 1904 of the Elgin, Aurora & Southern Traction property with the Aurora, Elgin & Chi-cago Railroad Company the latter company acquired thelighting business of the city of Elgin, which has about26,000 inhabitants. At that time energy was supplied froman antiquated steam-generating station, one of the firstinstalled in that part of the country. The entire equip- Aurora, Elgin & Chicago—Dispatchers Office and ShopYards at Wheaton ment consisted of small high-speed automatic engines, eachdriving two 125-volt Edison bipolar generators, rangingin size from
. Electric railway journal . onsolidation in 1904 of the Elgin, Aurora & Southern Traction property with the Aurora, Elgin & Chi-cago Railroad Company the latter company acquired thelighting business of the city of Elgin, which has about26,000 inhabitants. At that time energy was supplied froman antiquated steam-generating station, one of the firstinstalled in that part of the country. The entire equip- Aurora, Elgin & Chicago—Dispatchers Office and ShopYards at Wheaton ment consisted of small high-speed automatic engines, eachdriving two 125-volt Edison bipolar generators, rangingin size from 25-kw to 60-kw capacity. As soon as the company obtained this property planswere inaugurated for the reconstruction and extension ofthe service. These resulted in the building of a modernlighting substation at Elgin and the rehabilitation and ex-tension of the distribution system. At the Elgin substa-tion 25-cycle current is taken from the railway transmis-sion svstem and converted for local use by four motor-. Aurora, Elgin & Chicago—Interior Wheaton Shops generator sets. Two of these are of 300-kw capacity each,feeding an Edison three-wire distribution circuit; theother two are of 150-kw capacity each and convert the 25-cycle current into 60-cycle current for 2300-volt distribu-tion about the city. This substation plant also includesrectifier sets for supplying current to 470 magnetite-arclamps.
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