Article: Rental power at the races. (Cat Rental Power generator sets used during Gateway International Raceway renovation in Madison, IL)

Officials at Gateway International Raceway, Madison, Ill., were faced with the dilemma of how to provide lighting for their weekly drag racing programs at a facility that was undergoing major renovations - and with the power transformers were eight weeks from delivery. While late summer daylight allowed for racing into the evening hours, problems began to occur when the track's three-day-a-week racing programs began to run into the shortened daylight of the fall.

Enter Fabick Power Systems, the Fenton, Mo.-based Caterpillar distributor to supply two Cat Rental Power generator sets until normal power was restored to the race track. To handle the track's generated ...

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