. The Street railway journal . *;&*&$$. THE ROCKEFELLER DIVISION CROSSING, UNDER THE CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN TRACKS AT LAKE BLUFF Electric turbo-units. The two of 3000-kw will be the only onesinstalled for the present. Additions will be made as the servicedemands. The turbines will be located in a single line down the middleof a central bay. An extension on one side will contain tworows of boilers, the coal bunkers being placed above the passagebetween the lines of boilers. Bus-bar structures, high-tension EXTERIOR OF NEW SUBSTATION waukee, each to be of 1000-kw capacity. Another will be builta
. The Street railway journal . *;&*&$$. THE ROCKEFELLER DIVISION CROSSING, UNDER THE CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN TRACKS AT LAKE BLUFF Electric turbo-units. The two of 3000-kw will be the only onesinstalled for the present. Additions will be made as the servicedemands. The turbines will be located in a single line down the middleof a central bay. An extension on one side will contain tworows of boilers, the coal bunkers being placed above the passagebetween the lines of boilers. Bus-bar structures, high-tension EXTERIOR OF NEW SUBSTATION waukee, each to be of 1000-kw capacity. Another will be builtat Highwood to replace the direct-current machines now beingoperated in the power house. The new sub-stations will be similar in design to that one just completed south ofKenosha, the illustration ofwhich shows the building tobe a brick structure com-paratively free of ornamen-tation. A storage batteryoccupies the south half ofthe building, while thenorthern portion containsthe rotary converters, trans-formers and other appa-ratus.
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