. The Street railway journal . Yerba Buena Ave PLAN OF NEW OAKLAND TRACTION SHOPS nects those cities with San Leandro, Fruitvale and Hay-wards. Its old shops were located at Elmhurst on the Haywardline, at Temescal on the Berkeley lines, and at Piedmont forthe Oakland system. About two years ago the San Francisco, Oakland & San nue, as shown on the accompanying plan. The Key Routemain line passes on Yerba Buena Avenue, with a station atHollis Street and another at San Pablo Avenue, one block Traction surface lines on San Pablo Avenue andHollis Street have direct connection with th
. The Street railway journal . Yerba Buena Ave PLAN OF NEW OAKLAND TRACTION SHOPS nects those cities with San Leandro, Fruitvale and Hay-wards. Its old shops were located at Elmhurst on the Haywardline, at Temescal on the Berkeley lines, and at Piedmont forthe Oakland system. About two years ago the San Francisco, Oakland & San nue, as shown on the accompanying plan. The Key Routemain line passes on Yerba Buena Avenue, with a station atHollis Street and another at San Pablo Avenue, one block Traction surface lines on San Pablo Avenue andHollis Street have direct connection with the shop trackage. GENERAL VIEW, OAKLAND TRACTION SHOPS Jose Railway inaugurated a ferry and electric train servicebetween San Francisco and Oakland, Berkeley and Piedmont,now popularly called the Key Route system (see the StreetRailway Journal for Jan. 2 and 9, 1904), and the necessitysoon became apparent that new shops should be secured in a and connect with all the other lines of the Traction one-third of the property lies in Oakland and two-thirdsin Emeryville, the shops deriving their name from the latter. In addition to the connection with the electric railway lines,the shops have direct rail connection with the Southern Pa- February 3, 1906.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 175 cific and Santa Fe Railroads, and, by means of the 3-mile pierand dock terminal of the Key Route in San Francisco Bay,have deep-water facilities for receiving river, coast and oceanshipments. Although but four blocks from the bay, the shop site has anelevation ranging from over 24 ft. to ^., giving a slopeof abo
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