. Electric railway gazette . orses. NOETH AND WEST CHICAGO BAILWAYELECTKICAL EaUIPMENT. The Siemens & Halske Electric Company ofAmerica has been awarded the contract for theelectrical equipment for the lines of the West andNorth Chicago Street Railroad companies. Thecontract calls for three H. p. and one 1,000-H. p. generator, and specifies that the first dynamoshall be completed within four months of theaward of the contract, and that an additionalmachine shall be completed every 15 days. TheWest Side po%ver-house is designed to ultimatelyaccommodate five 2,000-H. P. generators and oneo


. Electric railway gazette . orses. NOETH AND WEST CHICAGO BAILWAYELECTKICAL EaUIPMENT. The Siemens & Halske Electric Company ofAmerica has been awarded the contract for theelectrical equipment for the lines of the West andNorth Chicago Street Railroad companies. Thecontract calls for three H. p. and one 1,000-H. p. generator, and specifies that the first dynamoshall be completed within four months of theaward of the contract, and that an additionalmachine shall be completed every 15 days. TheWest Side po%ver-house is designed to ultimatelyaccommodate five 2,000-H. P. generators and oneof 1,000 H. p.,and the North Side station willeventually contain generators aggregating 6,000H. p. EAILWAY GENEEATOE SWITOHBOAEDPANEL. In order that the switchboards of electrical rail-way stations may be of uniform construction, hand-some in appearance, and generally a credit to thestation, a departure from hitherto accepted methodsjs necessary. We described a short time ago afeeder panel of the General Electric Companys. New Railway Switchboard Panel. make which fulfilled the electrical and aestheticrequirements, and we now show a generator panelmade by the same company constituting with thatjust mentioned the departure in question. Briefly the system of switchboard constructionwhile becoming greatly simplified, is renderedvery compact and convenient. All the instrumentsnecessary for the control of each generator aremounted together on an incombustible base, andare electrically connected before leaving the fac-tory. Each panel may be erected in positionwithout difficulty or delay. Being of uniform sizeit may be bolted by the side of other panels alreadyin place, and the switchboard extended as thecapacity of the station increases without takingaway from its uniformity. These new standard panels are known as type 58 STREET RAILWAY GAZETTE, August 11, 1894 K,and are constructed in capacities of from 200to 3,000 amperes, corresponding to the generatoroutputs of from 100 to 1,.50U


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