. Railway mechanical engineer . ad.—According to a newspaper re-port, the Pennsylvania is planning improvements to theAltoona, Pa., car shops, the most important of which is theinstalling of two new ovens for drying paint on passengercars. Southern Railway.—This company will provide aspecial shop for repairs to steel cars at the Coster shops nearKnoxville, Tenn. The new facilities will consist of an all-steel main shed 73 ft. by 480 ft., through which will extendthree tracks, and a workshop 51 ft. by 100 ft., both to beequipped with overhead power cranes and a full complementof machinery and t
. Railway mechanical engineer . ad.—According to a newspaper re-port, the Pennsylvania is planning improvements to theAltoona, Pa., car shops, the most important of which is theinstalling of two new ovens for drying paint on passengercars. Southern Railway.—This company will provide aspecial shop for repairs to steel cars at the Coster shops nearKnoxville, Tenn. The new facilities will consist of an all-steel main shed 73 ft. by 480 ft., through which will extendthree tracks, and a workshop 51 ft. by 100 ft., both to beequipped with overhead power cranes and a full complementof machinery and tools for repairing steel cars. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe.—Final plans and speci-fications are being prepared for a new blacksmith shop atAlbuquerque, N. M. It will be a steel-frame, brick structurewith metal sasli windows, 30 ft. long by 80 ft. wide, to costapproximately $60,000. March, 1916 RAILWAY MECHANICAL ENGINEER 161 Supply Trade Notes has been appointed general manager ofCompany, with headquarters at Chicago,. W. Wolff A. B. Wegener sales of the (allied 111. Herbert W. Wolff lias been appointed vice-president of theAmerican Car & Foundry Company, in charge of sales, withoffice at Chicago. Mr. Wolff was horn on December 27, 1873,and was educated inthe public schools o!Detroit, Mich. He be-gan his business careeras an employee of theMichigan Car Companyat Detroit in the Michiganand Peninsular carcompanies were mergedin 1802 under thename of the MichiganPeninsular Car Com-pany, he remained inthe service of the con-solidated was assistant me-chanical engineer ofthis company in 1899,when the AmericanCar 8: Foundry Com-part}- was formed, andwent to St. Louis, Mo.,to become chief mechanical engineer of the new company. In1912 he was appointed assistant to the vice-presdent, withheadquarters at St. Louis, which position he held until hisrecent promotion to the vice-presidency. P. M. Elliott, general manager of the Camel Company ofChicago, 111., w
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