| $1.1 million transformer collides with an overpass |

LONGMONT — A $1.1 million transformer being trucked from Wisconsin to the city’s new electric substation collided with an overpass in Iowa last Friday, delaying the station’s completion.
“It had a conflict with an overpass. The overpass won,” said Tom Schaeffer, chief electrical engineer for Longmont Power & Com
Diamond Cables, at its meeting held Apr. 23, 2007, approved conversion & renaming of Western Transformers to the name & style `Diamond Power Transformer.` The company had acquired Western Transformers in March 2007.