. Electric railway journal . Chicago Railways Shops—Reconstructed Machine Shop with Motor-Driven Tools CARPENTER AND PAINT SHOP BUILDING The first of the newer buildings to be erected was that occu-pied by the carpenter and paint shops. This has over-all di-mensions of 316 ft. x 223 ft. for the main portion, and it alsohas an addition 316 ft. long with an extreme width of 51 main portion of this shop is halved by a fire-resisting one opening connects the two subdivisions and that is pro-tected by a vestibule and two sets of automatic double firedoors. This shop building is set
. Electric railway journal . Chicago Railways Shops—Reconstructed Machine Shop with Motor-Driven Tools CARPENTER AND PAINT SHOP BUILDING The first of the newer buildings to be erected was that occu-pied by the carpenter and paint shops. This has over-all di-mensions of 316 ft. x 223 ft. for the main portion, and it alsohas an addition 316 ft. long with an extreme width of 51 main portion of this shop is halved by a fire-resisting one opening connects the two subdivisions and that is pro-tected by a vestibule and two sets of automatic double firedoors. This shop building is set back 55 ft. from the streetlines at each end to make room for transfer tables. The twotables connect with all of the tracks through both subdivisionsof the building and those tracks which extend across the streetsto other buildings. The location of the transfer tables outsideof the building walls relieved the company from making largeopenings in the dividing fire wall inside the structure. Thesewere considered dangerous f
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