. The Street railway journal . een made. The struc-tures are not only large enough for the demands of to-dayand of the immediate future, but are so arranged as to leaveroom for ample enlargement without impairing the effi-ciency of any part of the plant as it now stands. The site of the new plant is almost exactly midway be- up the completed plant as at present planned. These sixbuildings are now almost completed and are being equipped,a seventh is well under way, and the remaining four will bepushed along as rapidly as circumstances will permit. Aplan of the shops is presented herewith. The s
. The Street railway journal . een made. The struc-tures are not only large enough for the demands of to-dayand of the immediate future, but are so arranged as to leaveroom for ample enlargement without impairing the effi-ciency of any part of the plant as it now stands. The site of the new plant is almost exactly midway be- up the completed plant as at present planned. These sixbuildings are now almost completed and are being equipped,a seventh is well under way, and the remaining four will bepushed along as rapidly as circumstances will permit. Aplan of the shops is presented herewith. The structures al-ready completed or nearing completion are indicated by thediagonal lines. The buildings outlined merely are yet to bebuilt. The parts of buildings indicated by dotted lines areadditions to be made as needed. The water system as ar-ranged at present is shown by the dot and dash lines, andthe sewer system by the short and long dash lines. Solidlines, except where indicating parts of buildings, stand for Pascal ave *. NORTH. <- f*¥fft .south: VATERj JjawfiRj GENERAL PLAN OF THE TWIN CITY RAPID TRANSIT COMPANYS NEW SHOP AND CAR HOUSE tween Minneapolis and St. Paul, on the main electric linebetween the two cities, and at the junction of a cross-townline which connects by about a 5 minutes run with twoother trunk lines between the cities. It is, therefore, easilyaccessible from every part of the system, despite the factthat the companys lines are spread over a large area. Thecompany was fortunate in being able to obtain the site—forty acres in all—while it was still wholly unoccupied andrequired only a moderate amount of grading to bring it tothe street level. Almost before the grading was done, the company set towork on six of the eleven large buildings that are to make trackage. The plant as mapped covers forty acres, the dia-gram being drawn to a scale of 250 ft. to the inch. The buildings up and those to be put up are, or are to be,of reinforced concrete thro
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