. The Street railway journal . s place a modern car house hold-ing sixty-three motor-cars, and a small repair shop, waserected. During the course of the last few years a largepart of the car stables were transformed into motor-car houses, and severalnew depots, de-signed exclusivelyfor motor cars,have been con-structed. A largerrepair shop, inwhich one hun-dred cars may berepaired and 150more stored at thesame time, hasbeen built in UferStreet, where thenew cars are alsoequipped with mo-tors. In this con-nection it might bestated that the de-pots, which at thebeginning of 1899offered room forn
. The Street railway journal . s place a modern car house hold-ing sixty-three motor-cars, and a small repair shop, waserected. During the course of the last few years a largepart of the car stables were transformed into motor-car houses, and severalnew depots, de-signed exclusivelyfor motor cars,have been con-structed. A largerrepair shop, inwhich one hun-dred cars may berepaired and 150more stored at thesame time, hasbeen built in UferStreet, where thenew cars are alsoequipped with mo-tors. In this con-nection it might bestated that the de-pots, which at thebeginning of 1899offered room fornearly 1100 horsecars and 6000horses, will, withinone and one-halfyears, all be trans-formed into housesfor the housingand repairing of motor-cars. By the time the work of transformation iscompleted the company itself will own in round figures1200 motor-cars, to which should be added one hundredmotor cars belonging to other companies. In Berlin it is difficult to talk about a center of traffic; The Vincennes Exposition Railroad. FIG. 12.—SECTION BOX WITH TWO WATT-METERS FOR MEASURING CURRENTFLOW FROM FEEDERS TO TROLLEY [From Our Regular Correspondent.]The Paris Exposition is divided, as most readers of thispaper know, into two sections, this arrangement being de-termined upon by reason of lack of available space withinthe city limits. The annex is situated at Vincennes, about6 miles distant from the main grounds, and is practicallyisolated, inasmuch as there is no adequate system of trans-portation between the two sections, and a single entrance
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