Globe/T. Rob Brown Scott Michell, center, a rigger with Ozark Crane, and Doremus Blakely, installer with Howard Industries, connect one of two 126,000-pound transformers to a crane Tuesday morning, June 19, 2012, at the Empire District Electric Company substation off 26th Street near the former Irving Elementary School location.

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