. The street railway review . liOlLIiR ROOM. parties controlling the South Chicago City road, and the two havesince been operated as one. The combined mileage of these two companies is now 57!.• miles,all operated from the power house of the South Chicago City com-pany at South Chicago. This plant is on Ewing Ave. near the 92dSt. Bridge, and is equipped with three Allis engines. 22 x 48 in. beltconnected to three Edison 200-kw. generators, one compound en-gine, 20 and 48 X 48 in., direct connected to a 5oo-k\v. Westinghouse station; two 50-kw. General Electric multipolar, series boosters aredi
. The street railway review . liOlLIiR ROOM. parties controlling the South Chicago City road, and the two havesince been operated as one. The combined mileage of these two companies is now 57!.• miles,all operated from the power house of the South Chicago City com-pany at South Chicago. This plant is on Ewing Ave. near the 92dSt. Bridge, and is equipped with three Allis engines. 22 x 48 in. beltconnected to three Edison 200-kw. generators, one compound en-gine, 20 and 48 X 48 in., direct connected to a 5oo-k\v. Westinghouse station; two 50-kw. General Electric multipolar, series boosters aredirect connected to a 150-h. p. multipolar shunt-wound three machines are well shown in the illustration. The Ham-mond end of the line is gA miles from the power station. The rolling stock comprises 74 motor and 53 trail cars built by theSt. Louis, Brownell and Pullman companies. The motor cars are. WILLIAM EDWIX Enpr 01 Station. mounted on McGuire and Peckham trucks and fitted with West-inghouse motors. The officers and staflf of the company are: President. D. F. Cam-eron; vice-president. D. M. Cummings: secretary, treasurer andpurchasing agent. O. S. Gaither; superintendent, William Walms-ley; chief engineer of power station. Edwin Jowett. 670 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. [Vol. IX, No. lo. The Chicago & Milwaukee Electric Railway. The opening a few weeks ago of tlic entire section of the Chi-cago & Milwaukee Ry. between Evanston and VVaukegan, a dis-tance of 2/ miles, marks the introduction of a new system of elec-trical distribution for long-distance interurban railways combiningboth direct and alternating current transmissions and auxiliarystorage batteries to take care of the temporary heavy loads. Thissystem was worked out by Mr. Bion J. Arnold four years ago whileacting as consulting engineer for a long-distance, high-speed line,an
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