. American engineer and railroad journal . CO o01 OO < o X o I-< CO CL O I (O zcc UJ I- CO 111. 5 i: t-iro z o z< oo <o X o a. APRiL,i9oo. American engineer and railroad journal, in f^undutmi undercols morKed R, FoundaTionundercojs. P>exnr,ioumptittsfiop Fig. 8.—Machine Shop-Annex Planand Sections, CHICAGO AND NORTHWESTERN SHOPS AT CHICAGO. Extensive Improvements. 16 feet high. On one side of the building is the transfer table,and on the other, running its full length, is a track depressed4 feet below the surrounding ground. This is for unloadingwheels, and it is placed 50 feet
. American engineer and railroad journal . CO o01 OO < o X o I-< CO CL O I (O zcc UJ I- CO 111. 5 i: t-iro z o z< oo <o X o a. APRiL,i9oo. American engineer and railroad journal, in f^undutmi undercols morKed R, FoundaTionundercojs. P>exnr,ioumptittsfiop Fig. 8.—Machine Shop-Annex Planand Sections, CHICAGO AND NORTHWESTERN SHOPS AT CHICAGO. Extensive Improvements. 16 feet high. On one side of the building is the transfer table,and on the other, running its full length, is a track depressed4 feet below the surrounding ground. This is for unloadingwheels, and it is placed 50 feet from the shop, which gives alarge amount of room lor storage. The walls of this buildingare 18 inches thick. It has five ventilators 12 feet long by 6 feetwide. Adjoining this shop is a 33 by 24-foot building contain-ing the wash room, with 20 wash bowls and 150 lockers, and, ina separate room, 10 closets and 9 urinals. The Machine Shop work as turning up crank pins, making new parts ofengines, brass work, bolts and rods, usually interferes seri-ously with the heavier work of a shop, and by being scatteredall about it is a source of expense and annoyance, which willbe entirely done away with in these shops by concentrating
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