. Electric railway journal . l. The yardcomprises mile of track, laid with 75-lb. A. S. C. , and hard-center special work of 100-lb. A. S. C. E. depot is a 30-ft. x 150-ft. brick structure, with stuccofinish. In addition to the brick station buildings at the HillStreet terminal and at the Buena Vista freight yards, thereare brick depots at Santa Monica, Ocean Park, Del Rey, Hermosa Beach, Hollywood, Sawtelle andSherman. Frame depots have been built at Port Los An-geles, Santa Monica, Palms, Soldiers Home, Ocean Park,Venice and Redondo. Passenger shelters are p
. Electric railway journal . l. The yardcomprises mile of track, laid with 75-lb. A. S. C. , and hard-center special work of 100-lb. A. S. C. E. depot is a 30-ft. x 150-ft. brick structure, with stuccofinish. In addition to the brick station buildings at the HillStreet terminal and at the Buena Vista freight yards, thereare brick depots at Santa Monica, Ocean Park, Del Rey, Hermosa Beach, Hollywood, Sawtelle andSherman. Frame depots have been built at Port Los An-geles, Santa Monica, Palms, Soldiers Home, Ocean Park,Venice and Redondo. Passenger shelters are placed at theintermediate stations. Additional facilities at the Sherman shops have beenbuilt as shown on the accompanying plan, with the excep-tion of the paint shop and transfer table, which have notyet been built. The brass and iron foundries formerlystood on the present site of the carpenter shop, but were re-moved and rebuilt in the location shown on the plat. Atemporary track layout was installed at the time of the con-. Los Angeles Pacific Company—Substation at Plaza del Rey struction of the completed buildings, and has not yet beenreplaced with the permanent layout. This will probablybe done in the near future. TUNNEL CUT-OFF One of the best examples of this companys progressivepolicy is the recently completed Hill Street cut-off. TheHollywood and Colegrove cars were formerly broughtfrom Buena Vista Street to the Los Angeles terminal overthe tracks of the Los Angeles Railway Company. Owingto the congested condition of the streets along this route, much delay and incon-venience were en-countered in gettingthe cars in and out ofthe downtown order to avoid con-gested streets and op-erate over a shorter,quicker and moreeconomical route, acut-off line was builtalong Hill Street anda private right-of-way. This cut-off in-volved the building mile of doubletrack and tunnels and No. 2, respec-tively 546 ft. and 976ft. in length. The track construc-tion i
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