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Caption: Dedication - Transportation Building Dedication Addresses
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WestinghouseT s predict ion will not come true, and it will be demonstrated that it will be more economical to burn the coal at the mine and transmit the power electrically to the railroads, and thus both save the cost of transporting the non-heat producing portion of the fuel, but also burn the coal under conditions which will permit obtaining the greatest efficiency, as against the present most wasteful manner, that is, under locomotive boilers. The requirements of city ordinances as well as other considerations have already caused the use of electric power for several important railway terminals, and we, who live in Chicago, are hopefully awaiting the application of such plans to the terminals of our own city. The abundant and constant water powers of 'our western mountain streams are being utilized by several railway systems to develop electric power for their mountain divisions, replacing both coal and oil; the latter a hidden wealth of the earth, which, so far as is known, is not now being created. The successful use of electric power at points will certainly be followed by the gradual sion of the electric zones until in time they wil nous enover so much terrltorv t^***^-- u-. V*A Mmnnmii ± o QJMLI that zi t it will be economy to apply Tiov/er to the whole the railway systems, and then per ha* Westinch Ian. stent l lonKe o in
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