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Title: Railway master mechanic (microform)
Year: 1895 (1890s)
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Subjects: Railroads Railroads
Publisher: New York : (Simmons-Boardman Pub. Corp.)
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iving roads. Bill owners for theirpart of repairs made necessary by deterioration, brok-en, damaged or lost parts in fair service, which can bedefined as they are to-day in the M. C. B. rules, onlynot quite so severe. Bill delivering companies for suchparts that show they were damaged by rough handling,as explained by M. C. B. rules for that purpose, show-ing each by working card that is applied what has beendone. Increase the price of labor 15 or 20 per centfor such repairs, so that it will be more profitable forowners to do their own work than to allow cars inan indifferent condition to get away in interchangeafter reaching the home road. This will encourageall roads to keep up foreign cars, resulting in goodboth ways, for it is a recognized fact that fully 25per cent of the rolling stock of this country is non-producing, being held for repairs on rip tracks or atshops. Therefore, any steps taken that will preventloss of mileage to rolling stock will tend to increase SaekdJlSJ^ g6-.
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HALFSCC AB- HALF SEC CD /e/i&sf. SECTIONAL PLAN 100,000 POUNDS STEEL COAL CAR-NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY—ELEVATION, PLAN AND SECTION. 138 RAILWAY MASTER MECHANIC. October, 1898. earnings by giving larger returns on the capital in-vested, and will save making still larger investmentsin rolling stock. 1 le.ieve tliere are enough large-hearted managersand superintendents of rolling stock who will say, Letus place all inspectors at interchange points under oneman. let the foreman of repair tracks inspect everytrain as it conies in off his road, mark what is to be(.one to loads to make them safe and mark empties tothe repair track for needed repairs: there his repairforce can soon return the cars to the main line, whilethe joint man will attend to the exchanging of loads.The joint inspector being independent of all roads,his position will depend on the justice of his actionsand the rapidity with which he moves the freight.One inspector can do the work of three, each man abundant descri

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