By permission of J. Jackson &* Sons, European Agents for the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway. 



ELECTRIFIED YARDS AT BUTTE, MONTANA 



A scene on the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway. At this great mining centre all the shunting in the freight yards is 

 done electrically. Overhead are seen the conductors, suspended from strong catenary cables, which in turn are carried by other cables 

 spanning the yards and supported on strong poles. Current, generated in hydro-electric stations and transmitted at 1 10,000 volts 

 pressure, is converted, in sub-stations distributed along the railway, into direct current at 3,000 volts for the locomotives. The great 

 success attained by electric long-distance haulage on this system inaugurates a new era in railway history. 



