. Electric railway journal . made to the company building and loan as-sociation regarding assistance in building new new station is on Oakland Avenue, near the end ofthe Oakland Avenue car line and near the Center Streetcrosstown line, which extends entirely across the cityfrom east to west limits. This makes access to the car-house possible with a small amount of dead mileage fromthe six lines to be served. Carhouse Construction The carhouse and track layout is very similar to theFond du Lac carhouse constructed in 1913 and describedin the Electric Railway Journal for March 15, 1913
. Electric railway journal . made to the company building and loan as-sociation regarding assistance in building new new station is on Oakland Avenue, near the end ofthe Oakland Avenue car line and near the Center Streetcrosstown line, which extends entirely across the cityfrom east to west limits. This makes access to the car-house possible with a small amount of dead mileage fromthe six lines to be served. Carhouse Construction The carhouse and track layout is very similar to theFond du Lac carhouse constructed in 1913 and describedin the Electric Railway Journal for March 15, 1913,page 497. The building is of sufficient capacity to houseapproximately one third of the cars which will operateout of this division. The entire layout will provideopen and closed storage space for approximately 150cars, the building being intended to house only thosecars which are going through on the regular schedulefor cleaning and inspection work. For this purpose fourtracks are covered in the new building at the present. MILWAUKEE CARHOUSE AND STATION—RESTAURANT ON MAINFLOOR OF TRAINMENS BUILDING MILWAUKEE CARHOUSE AND STATION—READING ROOM AND-RECEPTION ROOM, SECOND FLOOR TRAINMENS BUILDING April 14, 1917] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 691 time, but the contract is already let for the construc-tion of an additional bay to the north of the presentbuilding and covering four more tracks. Besides the four tracks under cover in the presentlayout, there are ten tracks for open storage extend-ing through the yard and stub-ended at the back. Assoon as further filling can be done, each of these trackswill be connected to a loop track across the rear end ofthe property and extending along the south side to con-nect with the Oakland Street line. When this is com-pleted, it will make possible the movement of cars intoand out of the yard from either end of any track, andthus greatly facilitate car movement during the rushperiods. The layout is arranged, as seen from the ac-companying pl
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