Berlin Alexanderplatz - pg. 217

People hurry over the ground like bees. They hustle and bustle around here day and night, by the hundreds.
The street-cars roll past with a screech and a scrunch, yellow ones with trailers, away they go across the planked-over Alxanderplatz, it's dangerous to jump off. The station is laid out on a broad plan, Einbahnstrasse to Konigstrasse. The trains rumble from the railroad station towards Jannowitz Bruck, the locomotive puffs out a plume of steam, just now it is standing above the Pralat, Schlossbrau entrance a block further down.