. Railroad freight transportation . s to be hoped for by keeping thefacts constantly in evidence. As to moving the mass of Fisher says, they cannot be moved by brains but onlyby emotion and earnestness. In the original location and construction of some of ourolder railroads, especially in the West, real estate and townsite conditions w^ere given consideration over operating con-ditions ; in result, depots, sidings, water and coaling stationswere often placed on ruling grades. These conditions arethe cause of much overtime and many delays and break-in-twos of trains. Much care should b
. Railroad freight transportation . s to be hoped for by keeping thefacts constantly in evidence. As to moving the mass of Fisher says, they cannot be moved by brains but onlyby emotion and earnestness. In the original location and construction of some of ourolder railroads, especially in the West, real estate and townsite conditions w^ere given consideration over operating con-ditions ; in result, depots, sidings, water and coaling stationswere often placed on ruling grades. These conditions arethe cause of much overtime and many delays and break-in-twos of trains. Much care should be taken to avoid such I have always believed in the practice of building little at a time,building often and making every possible endeavor each time to improveas much as possible on the last preceding effort. As a comparison withthe earlier days, it may be interesting to give here corresponding figuresof the last consolidation I have had built: Weight on drivers 267,800 lbs.,cylinders 27X32, developing 67,150 lbs. tractive LAYOUT FOR HELPER ENGINE SERVICE 15 mistakes. It is an operating axiom that all planned stopsshould be on a level or on a slack grade sufficiently less thanthe ruling grade to permit starting trains without undueeffort or delay, and without reducing the full engine slack grade should be about three train lengths long. When grade changes are to be made and track continuedin operation, much care should be taken to prevent inter-fering unduly with train movement. The best mechanicaldevices should be used, a long-armed steam shovel and auto-matic dump cars or fiat cars with side guide plows andLidgerwood unloader. When temporary tracks are usedthey should be of substantial character. Interference withthe main track should be reduced to the minimum, and thetrack should be raised rather than lowered. In makingchanges of grade on double track, time will be saved by put-ting one track out of commission, and operating the othertrack as single-line
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