Excerpt from The Electrification Project of the Chicago Suburban Service of the Chicago Burlington and Quincy R. R: A Thesis Complaints are constantly registered se ainst the nuisances accruing to the operat ion of steam railroads within the city lin its. The City of Chicago has recently made an investigation of the Electrification of Terminals, with the View of forcing a change from steam to electric operation of the trunk lines now entering the city. The Chicago Burlington and Quincy R. R. Is one of these lines, and it is the purpose of the writers to investigate the feasibility of its electrification, ani to present a re port on the cost of the change, together with a.co-plete determination of the elec. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.