. The Street railway journal . FIG. 1.—FRONT OF NEW CAR HOUSE OF THE CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY sion of a large addition to the Seventy-seventh Street carhouse, new car houses at Cottage Grove Avenue andThirty-eighth Street and the reconstruction of the WabashAvenue, Archer Avenue and Sixty-ninth Street car Cottage Grove Avenue buildings have been completedbut are not yet fully equipped, being used at the presenttime only for the storage of about 200 cars. They willhave an ultimate capacity of 250 cars with complete equip-ment for making all running repairs. The main shops of the Chicago
. The Street railway journal . FIG. 1.—FRONT OF NEW CAR HOUSE OF THE CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY sion of a large addition to the Seventy-seventh Street carhouse, new car houses at Cottage Grove Avenue andThirty-eighth Street and the reconstruction of the WabashAvenue, Archer Avenue and Sixty-ninth Street car Cottage Grove Avenue buildings have been completedbut are not yet fully equipped, being used at the presenttime only for the storage of about 200 cars. They willhave an ultimate capacity of 250 cars with complete equip-ment for making all running repairs. The main shops of the Chicago City Railway Companyadjoin the .Seventy-seventh Street car house on VincennesRoad. They were built in 1902 and were planned forfuture needs so that in the five years they have been incommission but few changes or additions have been re-quired in the shop plant itself. These shops were describedin detail in the Street Railway Journal March 7, 1903,and need not be considered again here except to make pass-ing reference to the
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