. The Street railway journal . s underconstruction and nearly completed and ready toreceive the cars of the Pacific Electric RailwayCompany. The car house is at the west end of thelarge tract of land purchased by H. E. Hunting-ton, fronting on Central Avenue and occupyingalmost the entire space of a block. The shops areprimarily for repair work on cars of the twoelectric railway systems, and new cars will also bebuilt. The new shops are at present contained in sixnew buildings, namely, the machine and black-smith shop, store and carpenter shop, paint shop,car repair shop and winding room, patt
. The Street railway journal . s underconstruction and nearly completed and ready toreceive the cars of the Pacific Electric RailwayCompany. The car house is at the west end of thelarge tract of land purchased by H. E. Hunting-ton, fronting on Central Avenue and occupyingalmost the entire space of a block. The shops areprimarily for repair work on cars of the twoelectric railway systems, and new cars will also bebuilt. The new shops are at present contained in sixnew buildings, namely, the machine and black-smith shop, store and carpenter shop, paint shop,car repair shop and winding room, pattern shopand lumber store house and an oil house, to whichwill soon be added a brass and iron foundry. In the construction of the buildings 3,000,000 lumber. 3,000,000 brick and 8000 barrels of Port-land cement were used. The shops contain about10,000 lineal feet of track for the reception of carsunder construction or repair, and the car house contains about5200 lineal feet of track for the storage and inspection of
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