. The Street railway journal . k- -45- -H«a>*i Street Railway Journal) FIG. 7-—SECTION OF STAND-ARD RAIL 728 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XX. No. 18. thickness. The rail company has guaranteed to keep thisline in good order for ten years. DEPOTS AND CAR HOUSES The selection of proper sites for the necessary car housesand repair shops of the system was, by no means, an easy. SCrc t lOiihoaij Journal FIG. 8.—SECTION OF RAIL LAID IN ASPHALT task. The local conditions did not permit the construc-tion of a car house in the center of the city. At the sametime the former horse-car house at Seefel
. The Street railway journal . k- -45- -H«a>*i Street Railway Journal) FIG. 7-—SECTION OF STAND-ARD RAIL 728 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XX. No. 18. thickness. The rail company has guaranteed to keep thisline in good order for ten years. DEPOTS AND CAR HOUSES The selection of proper sites for the necessary car housesand repair shops of the system was, by no means, an easy. SCrc t lOiihoaij Journal FIG. 8.—SECTION OF RAIL LAID IN ASPHALT task. The local conditions did not permit the construc-tion of a car house in the center of the city. At the sametime the former horse-car house at Seefeld was too limitedand the land there available was too contracted to warrantthe construction, at that point, of a depot which wouldfulfil all requirements. It was finally decided to have sev-eral car houses and to accommodate not more than fiftycars in one building. As a result, the corporation haserected three car houses, viz., one in Seefeld Strasse, onein Badener Strasse, and one in Mutschellen Strasse, aswell as a waiting-room on Parade Platz. The property on which the car house in Seefeld Strasse(Figs. 9 and io) was erected occupies an entire building contains a car house with a small repairshop, the main repair shop and store-rooms. There is alsoa separate office building, in which is also the residenceof the repair-shop manager. The building is particu
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