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This pre-solicitation notice seeks proposals for a construction project at Pullman National Monument in Chicago, Illinois. The National Park Service will stabilize the Administration Building and construct a new Visitor Center for approximately $5-10 million. Offerors must submit both technical and price proposals, with technical capability considered in the evaluation. The single awarded firm-fixed price contract will have a period of performance from September 2019 through August 2020. The total project includes masonry repairs and reinforcement, floor installation, and minimal buildout on the second and third floors of the Administration Building. It also encompasses tenant improvements to convert the first floor into the new Visitor Center, including exhibits, restrooms, meeting spaces, and mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems. Coordination will be required with other concurrent construction activities at the site. As a small business set-aside, only responsible small businesses at or below $36.5 million in annual revenue may submit offers for consideration.

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18Elevations / Palace Car North WallScale: 1/2" = 1'-0"

PALACE CAR ELEVATIONS

ELEVATION - Car Interior - North Wall Scale: 1/2" = 1'-0"

0 1 2 3 4 FT

UPPER BERTH

DEMONSTRATOR

REAR ILLUMINATED

WINDOW GRAPHICS

TACTILE TABLE

SETTING

LOWER BERTH

DEMONSTRATOR

GRAPHIC PANEL

ON WINDOW WITH TACTILE

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19Elevations / Palace Car South WallScale: 1/2" = 1'-0"

PALACE CAR ELEVATIONS

ELEVATION - Car Interior - South Wall Scale: 1/2" = 1'-0"

0 1 2 3 4 FT

PORTER AV

REAR PROJECTION SCREEN

ENTRANCE FROM CARRIAGEWAY

AV PROJECTION IMAGE

FOR PLACEMENT ONLY

ELEVATION - Car Interior - East Wall Scale: 1/2" = 1'-0"

MURAL GRAPHIC ON END

WALL OF CAR

ELEVATION - Car Interior - West Wall Scale: 1/2" = 1'-0"

1 0 1 2 3 4 FT

OPEN TO FIRST EXHIBIT GALLERY

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20Elevations / Palace Car West & East WallsScale: 1/2" = 1'-0"

PALACE CAR ELEVATIONS

MURAL GRAPHIC ON

END WALL OF CAR

OPEN TO SECTIONS 3 & 4

EXHIBIT GALLERIES

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21Scale = N/A Pullman Car Renderings

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SCALE DRAWINGSPROJECT PHASE

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National Park Service - Pullman National Monument Concept Design As noted Palace Car 03.00

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SCALE DRAWINGSPROJECT PHASE

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National Park Service - Pullman National Monument Concept Design As noted Palace Car 04.00

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22Scale = N/A Pullman Car Rendering

CAR RENDERING

AV PROJECTION IMAGE

FOR PLACEMENT ONLY

M1.1C3.1

SCALE DRAWINGSPROJECT PHASE

T H E D E S I G N M I N D S, I N C.C

National Park Service - Pullman National Monument Concept Design As noted Elevations Sections 3 & 4 02.00

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ACRYLIC PANELS -

ALUMINUM FRAME WITH

LED EDGE ILLUMINATION.

LOW VOLTAGE POWER

CARRIED BY ROD HANGING

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SUSPENSION BY EXH.

FAB. (FINAL SIZE TBD)

TOILET INTERACTIVE / HOME

FEATURES READER RAIL

PUSHBUTTON ACTIVATES

FLUSH AUDIO AND

SHORT VIDEO ON MONITOR.

TACTILE OF HOUSE FEATURES

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23Elevation / Exhibits Section 3 & 4Scale: 1/4" =1'-0"

ELEVATIONS

M1.1C3.1

SCALE DRAWINGSPROJECT PHASE

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National Park Service - Pullman National Monument Concept Design As noted Exhibit Plan (Clean) 01.20

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FLOOR PLAN - Exhibit Plan Scale: 1/8" = 1'-0"

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National Park Service - Pullman National Monument Concept Design As noted Exhibit Plan (Clean) 01.20

0 1 2 3 4 FT

FLOOR PLAN - Exhibit Plan Scale: 1/8" = 1'-0"

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ELEVATION - Section 03.00, 03.01 & 03.03 Scale: 1/2" = 1'-0"1

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P I O N E E R O R P A T E R N A L I S T ?

60"

CREATING A

VISION

Industrialist George Pullman established Pullman’s Palace Car Company in 1867. The company designed, built, leased, and marketed railroad sleeping cars and first-class dining cars that provided “luxury for the middle class.” Pullman cars offered service provided by African Americans, many of whom had recently achieved freedom from slavery. In 1880, George Pullman experimentally set out to build a new town and manufacturing facilities on 4,000 acres fourteen miles south of Chicago. He envisioned that the new facilities would result in a happy, loyal workforce able to escape the pollution and social problems of the city.

The reality was far more complicated.

The Pullman Company gained prominence as railroads rapidly created and dominated a new national marketplace. Railroad schedules led to the development of standardized time zones across North America.

The country’s financial system became enmeshed with the railroad companies and allowed for the rise of larger corporate enterprises.

These new enterprises offered financial and social benefits, such as extraordinary innovation and jobs for masses of Americans, while also contributing to downsides including the rise of monopolies, economic instability, and social inequity.

The city of Chicago incorporated in 1837. By 1870, it had become the fifth-largest city in the country with a population of 298,977—nearly half of whom were immigrants. Railroads, stockyards, steel mills, and other industrial operations drove an era of massive economic growth and development marked by dramatic boom and bust cycles, as well as increasing inequality between the city’s wealthiest residents and working-class communities.

C HIC A G O

George Pullman firmly believed that train passengers would be willing to pay more for amenities usually associated with a first-class hotel. Built in 1867, Pullman’s Pioneer sleeping car established a new standard for luxury on the rails. It cost a staggering $20,000— considerably more than the typical 1860s passenger car.

GL-03.01-100

BUSINESS

STRATEGIES

Under George Pullman’s guidance, the Pullman Palace Car Company introduced several innovations. Rather than operating railroads, the company manufactured and then leased sleeping cars and provided the complete services on them, including porters, conductors, dining staff, food, and linens.

Each of Pullman’s sleeping and dining cars received distinctive names instead of numbers, creating a personality for the cars. The railroad collected the route fare, and people paid more to travel in a Pullman car, with the company profiting. These and other pioneering sales and marketing practices contributed to the company’s growth through the early 1900s.

– 1

Pullman employee Henry H. Sessions received a patent for the company’s first “vestibule” train on November 15, 1887.

Prior to the development of vestibules, passage between cars was dangerous and unpleasant. The introduction of enclosed platforms at the end of train cars increased the popularity of sleeping, dining, parlor, and other specialized cars.

Between the founding of the Pullman Palace Car Company in 1867 and his death in 1897, George Pullman oversaw the following major events:

MAJOR EVENTS

When developing his new shops, George Pullman efficiently co-located his suppliers and supplies needed to build trains in the design of his manufacturing shops. This 1882 map of Pullman shows the blacksmith, lumber facilities, and Allen Paper Wheel Works on the same site as the erecting shops.

1867–1897

Pullman Palace Car Company and Pullman Pacific Car Company formed.

Detroit Car & Manufacturing Company, Indianapolis & St. Louis Sleeping Coach Company, Erie & Atlantic Sleeping Car Company were purchased.

Pullman Southern Car Company organized.

Pullman parlor cars were introduced.

Town of Pullman and its manufacturing facilities began construction and Pullman’s Chicago offices were constructed at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Adams Street.

St. Louis shops established.

Dure Car Manufacturing Company and Union Palace Car Company were purchased.

Pullman strike and national boycott.

Pullman Palace Car Company’s worth reached $63.5 million at time of George Pullman’s death.

1860s

1870s

1880s

1890s

GL-03.02-100

LASTING

IMPACTS

OF THE PULLMAN IDEA

George Pullman forged a paternalistic relationship with his employees. He hoped to attract skilled workers and avoid strikes by offering better living conditions. Yet he limited many basic freedoms and even employed spies to report on activities in the town. Ultimately, the model town did not prevent labor unrest or offer economic security to its residents and future industry developers rejected the Pullman method of control and supervision.

However, the town of Pullman did offer a new design approach to city planning, which continues to inspire planners today.

Many also associate Pullman with his innovative business model—making and leasing luxury train cars, offering exceptional on-board service, conducting aggressive marketing, and continually improving the product— that transformed railroad travel in the United States.

The factory’s production, supported by Pullman’s business model, outpaced traditional railcar construction by creating a streamlined assembly process which included encouraging supply companies to locate within the town. The company designed homes for workers to reflect the varying incomes and needs of laborers and managers working at Pullman. The recruitment of African Americans and paying better wages for work that allowed them to travel across the country after the Civil War ultimately helped create a black middle class in America. How do today’s companies attract employees and manage growth?

Architects Daniel H. Burnham Jr. and Edward H. Bennett published Plan of Chicago in 1909 as their attempt to address social ills of their times. Like George Pullman, Burnham and Bennett believed that an attractive urban environment could improve a community’s health, social relationships, and economic well-being.

Their plan was only partially implemented.

After George Pullman’s death, ROBERT TODD LINCOLN (left), the son of President Abraham Lincoln, became president of the company. During his tenure, Lincoln oversaw a period of exponential corporate growth and the conversion from wood to steel car construction. The company also stopped leasing homes and managing the town.

GEORGE PULLMAN (right) died of a heart attack on October 19, 1897. He was 66 years old. His reputation remains tied to the events of the Pullman strike, which had made him widely unpopular among American workers. At the time of his death, Pullman’s family filled his burial site with layers of reinforced concrete and steel rails, reflecting George Pullman’s exacting standards—and addressing concerns that his body might be subject to acts of vandalism.

GL-03.03-100

Before creating the Pullman Company, George Pullman joined a family business that moved buildings for the construction of the Erie Canal. In 1857, he took a contract in Chicago to join in raising all of the existing downtown buildings to make way for a new sewer system. That same year, Pullman partnered with Benjamin C. Field to construct railroad sleeping cars. Field dissolved the partnership in 1867, with George Pullman taking full control.

GL-03.02-200

George Pullman married Harriett Sanger, daughter of a construction company owner, on June 13, 1867. They had four children: Florence, Harriett, George, and Walter.

The family lived in Chicago on Prairie Avenue, between George Pullman’s downtown office and the Pullman shops and town.

GL-03.01-200

What is the role of an employer towards his employees at work? At home? Would you trade home ownership for comfort?

What amenities and services do you expect where you live? What rights and freedoms do you expect?

The Town of Pullman was an experiment addressing these questions and more, that still resonate with urban planners and residents today.

GL-03.00-600 (20.5" w x 11.5" h)

The object in building Pullman was the establishment of a great manufacturing business on the most substantial basis possible, recognizing as we did, and do now, that the working people are the most important element which enters into the successful operation of any manufacturing enterprise.”

GEORGE PULLMAN / 1894

GL-03.00-900

GEORGE PULLMAN’S SIGNATURE

GeorGe Pullman's siGnature

PIONEER OR PATERNALIST?

GEORGE PULLMAN

As the owner of the Pullman Palace Car Company, (later known as the Pullman Company), George Pullman achieved great wealth and influence with the nation’s booming railroad industry. Yet his ambitions did not stop there. Pullman chose to erect and manage his vision of a model town for his employees outside of Chicago.

Pullman’s decisions about which living and working conditions created satisfied and productive workers led some people to coin him a paternalist, or someone whose actions limit another group’s liberty to promote their own good. Building the town changed Pullman’s life and altered the course of American labor history and urban planning.

GL-03.00-000

P R O J E C T:

Pullman National Monument

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© T H E D E S I G N M I N D S , I N C .

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24Scale = As Noted Section 3 / George Pullman Color Elevation

Tinted acrylic panel with prompt questions

Area panel with gilded frame

Typical main with structured window framework with textured brass frame

Tinted acrylic quote panel

Railroad rails frame rod system for hanging panels

Painted walls

Bevel-cut ends to reduce sharp corners

Etched acrylic panels with car drawings, patent drawings, town plans, etc., suggestive of ‘vision and dreams’ / LED lights embedded in bars at top & bottom of each panel to illuminate the etchings

Lower railroad rail for cane detection

Image panel with gilded frame

Tactile ‘George M.

Pullman’ signature panel

Dimensional ‘rail-like’ title band

COLOR ELEVATION

Souith Elevation Scale: 3/8" = 1'-0"

0 1 2 3 4 FT

P I O N E E R O R P A T E R N A L I S T ?

60"

CREATING A

VISION

Industrialist George Pullman established Pullman’s Palace Car Company in 1867. The company designed, built, leased, and marketed railroad sleeping cars and first-class dining cars that provided “luxury for the middle class.” Pullman cars offered service provided by African Americans, many of whom had recently achieved freedom from slavery. In 1880, George Pullman experimentally set out to build a new town and manufacturing facilities on 4,000 acres fourteen miles south of Chicago. He envisioned that the new facilities would result in a happy, loyal workforce able to escape the pollution and social problems of the city.

The reality was far more complicated.

The Pullman Company gained prominence as railroads rapidly created and dominated a new national marketplace. Railroad schedules led to the development of standardized time zones across North America.

The country’s financial system became enmeshed with the railroad companies and allowed for the rise of larger corporate enterprises.

These new enterprises offered financial and social benefits, such as extraordinary innovation and jobs for masses of Americans, while also contributing to downsides including the rise of monopolies, economic instability, and social inequity.

The city of Chicago incorporated in 1837. By 1870, it had become the fifth-largest city in the country with a population of 298,977—nearly half of whom were immigrants. Railroads, stockyards, steel mills, and other industrial operations drove an era of massive economic growth and development marked by dramatic boom and bust cycles, as well as increasing inequality between the city’s wealthiest residents and working-class communities.

C HIC A G O

George Pullman firmly believed that train passengers would be willing to pay more for amenities usually associated with a first-class hotel. Built in 1867, Pullman’s Pioneer sleeping car established a new standard for luxury on the rails. It cost a staggering $20,000— considerably more than the typical 1860s passenger car.

GL-03.01-100

BUSINESS

STRATEGIES

Under George Pullman’s guidance, the Pullman Palace Car Company introduced several innovations. Rather than operating railroads, the company manufactured and then leased sleeping cars and provided the complete services on them, including porters, conductors, dining staff, food, and linens.

Each of Pullman’s sleeping and dining cars received distinctive names instead of numbers, creating a personality for the cars. The railroad collected the route fare, and people paid more to travel in a Pullman car, with the company profiting. These and other pioneering sales and marketing practices contributed to the company’s growth through the early 1900s.

– 1

Pullman employee Henry H. Sessions received a patent for the company’s first “vestibule” train on November 15, 1887.

Prior to the development of vestibules, passage between cars was dangerous and unpleasant. The introduction of enclosed platforms at the end of train cars increased the popularity of sleeping, dining, parlor, and other specialized cars.

Between the founding of the Pullman Palace Car Company in 1867 and his death in 1897, George Pullman oversaw the following major events:

MAJOR EVENTS

When developing his new shops, George Pullman efficiently co-located his suppliers and supplies needed to build trains in the design of his manufacturing shops. This 1882 map of Pullman shows the blacksmith, lumber facilities, and Allen Paper Wheel Works on the same site as the erecting shops.

1867–1897

Pullman Palace Car Company and Pullman Pacific Car Company formed.

Detroit Car & Manufacturing Company, Indianapolis & St. Louis Sleeping Coach Company, Erie & Atlantic Sleeping Car Company were purchased.

Pullman Southern Car Company organized.

Pullman parlor cars were introduced.

Town of Pullman and its manufacturing facilities began construction and Pullman’s Chicago offices were constructed at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Adams Street.

St. Louis shops established.

Dure Car Manufacturing Company and Union Palace Car Company were purchased.

Pullman strike and national boycott.

Pullman Palace Car Company’s worth reached $63.5 million at time of George Pullman’s death.

1860s

1870s

1880s

1890s

GL-03.02-100

LASTING

IMPACTS

OF THE PULLMAN IDEA

George Pullman forged a paternalistic relationship with his employees. He hoped to attract skilled workers and avoid strikes by offering better living conditions. Yet he limited many basic freedoms and even employed spies to report on activities in the town. Ultimately, the model town did not prevent labor unrest or offer economic security to its residents and future industry developers rejected the Pullman method of control and supervision.

However, the town of Pullman did offer a new design approach to city planning, which continues to inspire planners today.

Many also associate Pullman with his innovative business model—making and leasing luxury train cars, offering exceptional on-board service, conducting aggressive marketing, and continually improving the product— that transformed railroad travel in the United States.

The factory’s production, supported by Pullman’s business model, outpaced traditional railcar construction by creating a streamlined assembly process which included encouraging supply companies to locate within the town. The company designed homes for workers to reflect the varying incomes and needs of laborers and managers working at Pullman. The recruitment of African Americans and paying better wages for work that allowed them to travel across the country after the Civil War ultimately helped create a black middle class in America. How do today’s companies attract employees and manage growth?

Architects Daniel H. Burnham Jr. and Edward H. Bennett published Plan of Chicago in 1909 as their attempt to address social ills of their times. Like George Pullman, Burnham and Bennett believed that an attractive urban environment could improve a community’s health, social relationships, and economic well-being.

Their plan was only partially implemented.

After George Pullman’s death, ROBERT TODD LINCOLN (left), the son of President Abraham Lincoln, became president of the company. During his tenure, Lincoln oversaw a period of exponential corporate growth and the conversion from wood to steel car construction. The company also stopped leasing homes and managing the town.

GEORGE PULLMAN (right) died of a heart attack on October 19, 1897. He was 66 years old. His reputation remains tied to the events of the Pullman strike, which had made him widely unpopular among American workers. At the time of his death, Pullman’s family filled his burial site with layers of reinforced concrete and steel rails, reflecting George Pullman’s exacting standards—and addressing concerns that his body might be subject to acts of vandalism.

GL-03.03-100

Before creating the Pullman Company, George Pullman joined a family business that moved buildings for the construction of the Erie Canal. In 1857, he took a contract in Chicago to join in raising all of the existing downtown buildings to make way for a new sewer system. That same year, Pullman partnered with Benjamin C. Field to construct railroad sleeping cars. Field dissolved the partnership in 1867, with George Pullman taking full control.

GL-03.02-200

George Pullman married Harriett Sanger, daughter of a construction company owner, on June 13, 1867. They had four children: Florence, Harriett, George, and Walter.

The family lived in Chicago on Prairie Avenue, between George Pullman’s downtown office and the Pullman shops and town.

GL-03.01-200

The object in building Pullman was the establishment of a great manufacturing business on the most substantial basis possible, recognizing as we did, and do now, that the working people are the most important element which enters into the successful operation of any manufacturing enterprise.”

GEORGE PULLMAN / 1894

GL-03.00-900

GEORGE PULLMAN’S SIGNATURE

GeorGe Pullman's siGnature

What is the role of an employer towards his employees at work? At home? Would you trade home ownership for comfort?

What amenities and services do you expect where you live? What rights and freedoms do you expect?

The Town of Pullman was an experiment addressing these questions and more, that still resonate with urban planners and residents today.

GL-03.00-600 (20.5" w x 11.5" h)

PIONEER OR PATERNALIST?

GEORGE PULLMAN

As the owner of the Pullman Palace Car Company, (later known as the Pullman Company), George Pullman achieved great wealth and influence with the nation’s booming railroad industry. Yet his ambitions did not stop there. Pullman chose to erect and manage his vision of a model town for his employees outside of Chicago.

Pullman’s decisions about which living and working conditions created satisfied and productive workers led some people to coin him a paternalist, or someone whose actions limit another group’s liberty to promote their own good. Building the town changed Pullman’s life and altered the course of American labor history and urban planning.

GL-03.00-000

P R O J E C T:

Pullman National Monument

D R AW I N G S :S C A L E :P H A S E :

© T H E D E S I G N M I N D S , I N C .

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25Scale = As Noted Section 3 / George Pullman Color Elevation (Smaller Scale)

Smaller scale elevation showing wall bump-out and corner with door

COLOR ELEVATION

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Scale = As Noted

P H A S E :

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Plan - Pullman Man Scale: 1/4" = 1'-0"

0 1 2 FT

Elevation - Pullman Man Scale: 1/4" = 1'-0"

/4

/2

/8

20'-2 1/8"

8'-5 7/8"2'-10 3/8"

3D LETTERS

PIN MOUNTED TO TOP OF UPPER RAIL

W/ UPPER RULE BAR FACE MOUNTED

PAINTED

0 1 2 FT

GRAPHIC W/ MULLIONS

1" WOOD FRAME W/ MULLIONS

DIGITAL GRAPHIC

MOUNTED TO BACK OF FRAME

HUNG ON ROD SYSTEM

PAINTED

1/4" EDGELIT ACRYLIC GRAPHICS

ETCHED W/ 2ND SURFACE DIGITAL PRINT

W/ LED LIGHT TRACKS @ TOP & BOTTOM EDGE

HUNG ON ROD SYSTEM

GILDED FRAME GRAPHIC

BUY OUT GILDED FRAME

W/ DIGITAL GRAPHIC ON SUBSTRATE

HUNG ON 1/2 TUBE MOUNT

TYP OF 3

TACTILE SIGNATURE PANEL

ZINC CASTE & PAINTED

EXTENDS BEHIND PORTRAIT

& ATTACHES TO RODS & WIRES AS REQUIRED

Plan - Pullman Man Scale: 1/4" = 1'-0"

Section Scale: 3/4" = 1'-0"

CANE STRIKE RAILROAD RAIL

MOUNTED TO WALL

PAINTED

FAUX RAILROAD RAILS

WOOD CONSTRUCTION

W/ CHANNELS FOR LED LIGHT. TAPE

KEYHOLE SLOT MOUNTED TO WALL

MACHINED TO ACCEPT ROD & TUBE MOUNTS

FOR VARIOUS GRAPHICS

PAINTED

FAUX RAILROAD RAILS

WOOD CONSTRUCTION

W/ CHANNELS FOR LED LIGHT. TAPE

KEYHOLE SLOT MOUNTED TO WALL

MACHINED TO ACCEPT ROD & TUBE MOUNTS

FOR VARIOUS GRAPHICS

PAINTED

0 1 2 FT

Detail Rail Mounting Scale: 1 1/2" = 1'-0"

/2

6 1/4"

/4

3/4"1 1/2"

B&N ROD MOUNTING

SYSTEM

OR EQUAL

ANNODIZED BLACK

1/2" ANNODIZED BLACK

TUBE MOUNT

FOR GLIDED FRAME

GRAPHICS ONLY

0 3 6 IN

WIRING FOR LIGHTS

TRANSFORMER IN TRAIN

CAR

1/2" ALUMINUM CHANNEL

W/ LED LIGHT TAPE

INSIDE

GLUED TO GRAPHIC

WIRED TO POWERED

CABLE SYSTEM

LOW VOLTAGE

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PP-1

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PP-1

PP-2

WIRING FOR LIGHTING LOCATED

IN ADJACENT TRAINCAR

ON OTHER SIDE OF WALL

SECTION 3 DETAIL

D R AW I N G S :S C A L E :

Scale = As Noted

P H A S E :

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Elevations - Area 03.01 Main Panels Scale: 1 1/2" = 1'-0"

24"

/2

/4

10 7/8"

/4

/1

22 1/2"

3/4"

/8

10 7/8"

/1

10 7/8"

/8

13 5/8"

/4

8 1/8"

3/4"

3/4"

/4

5 1/2"

/8

5 1/2"

10"

Section Detail Scale: Half Actual Size

1"

/4

/4

OUTER FRAME

3/4 X 1" ALUMINUM

MITERED / WELDED / SANDED / PAINTED

GRAPHIC

DIGITAL PRINT

2ND SURFACE MTD TO 1/8" NG

MOUTED TO FACE OF BACKER

MULLIONS

3/4" "T"

WELDED TO OUTER FRAME

SANDED / PAINTED

1/2" MDF BACKER

PAINTED

1/8" "Z" CLEATS

FRAME SECURED TO GRAPHIC

W/ #8 SCREWS PAINTED

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MAIN PANEL DETAIL

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