. The Street railway journal . et is the separate peak,beginning about 1 130 a. m. and running until 3 a. m. Thisis caused by the operation of two or three cars between Colo-rado Springs and Manitou, to connect with the Pikes Peakcog road, in order to get the tourists to the top of the peak in CAR HOUSES A series of four brick and steel car houses are provided onTejon Street for the storage of the companys cars. Each ofthese houses is 180 ft. long. Two are each 50 ft. wide and havea combined capacity of thirty-two double-truck cars. The carhouse with office rooms on the second floor is 50 ft.
. The Street railway journal . et is the separate peak,beginning about 1 130 a. m. and running until 3 a. m. Thisis caused by the operation of two or three cars between Colo-rado Springs and Manitou, to connect with the Pikes Peakcog road, in order to get the tourists to the top of the peak in CAR HOUSES A series of four brick and steel car houses are provided onTejon Street for the storage of the companys cars. Each ofthese houses is 180 ft. long. Two are each 50 ft. wide and havea combined capacity of thirty-two double-truck cars. The carhouse with office rooms on the second floor is 50 ft. wide, andhas three open-pit tracks with a storage capacity of sixteendouble-truck cars. The new car house is 80 ft. wide with acenter row of latticed steel columns. It has six tracks, three ofwhich have open pits for repair work. This new car househas a capacity for twenty-four double-truck cars, making thecombined capacity for all the houses of seventy-two cars. Onthe north side of the car houses is a single-track wash house,. Street Bp. J- it full I PLAN OF SHOPS time to see the sun rise, which is a wonderful sight from thatpoint. During the summer months these sunrise excursionsare run from one to three times a week, and prove exceedinglypopular. A study of the main curve of the load sheet reveals the ex-istence of a heavy workingmens traffic about 7 a. m., and otherpeaks about 7:30 p. m. and 10:30 p. m., caused by the trafficto and from the evening entertainment at Stratton Park. Theload during the day is irregular, depending on the weather andthe trend of the tourist traffic. In case the hydro-electric development that is now being-made at Manitou by the Pikes Peak Hydro-Electric Company,proves commercially economical, it is possible that the tractioncompany will close down its steam plant and install a trans-former and rotary converter equipment to operate its water-power plant will use the water supply of ColoradoSprings for the development of about 4000 hp,
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