. Electric railway journal . the full length of the building. These arespaced on approximately 14-ft. centers throughout. Thetracks enter the building through 10-ft. openings provided April 26, ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 75i with swinging one-sash doors. In order to provide con-tinuous overhead trolley contact over the space betweenthe transfer table and the carpenter shop, structuralsteel brackets attached to the roof framing extend out overthe center of each door to meet the stub end of the trolleyon the transfer table. The new wood sh< p is supplied with heat from the cen- Tite
. Electric railway journal . the full length of the building. These arespaced on approximately 14-ft. centers throughout. Thetracks enter the building through 10-ft. openings provided April 26, ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 75i with swinging one-sash doors. In order to provide con-tinuous overhead trolley contact over the space betweenthe transfer table and the carpenter shop, structuralsteel brackets attached to the roof framing extend out overthe center of each door to meet the stub end of the trolleyon the transfer table. The new wood sh< p is supplied with heat from the cen- Tite Coiling Individual lighting is provided as needed by tungsten lampsswung from drop cords. Both the mill room and the car-penter shop have been equipped with a dry sprinkler water supply for this system as well as that in the oldshop building is taken from the city mains. Other meansof reducing fire hazard include a 17-111. brick partition walland double lire doors built under the underwriters specifi- Tile Copiay. Omaha Wood Shop—Cross-Section Through Wood Mill and Erecting Shop Lledric lij/.Jtsurnat tral heating plant in the old shop, which was made suffi-ciently large to take care of the additional radiation neces-sary to heat the new building. The heating system is ofthe indirect type, the steam-heating coils and a 6-ft. fanbeing installed in one corner of the mill room. Hot-airducts are carried overhead on the floor beams of the secondfloor of the mill room and roof trusses of this portion ofthe building, as well as in the carpenter shop. The steam cations. The latter, in case of fire, automatically close thetwo openings between the mill room and the carpentershop. WOOD MILL As mentioned previously, the wood mill is two stories inheight, the mill room being on the first floor and the cabinetshop occupying the balcony on the second floor. A 2-tonelectric freight elevator operating at 25 ft. per minute was
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