. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . TORS. Paxon wrote cost $1,000 a word, but itwas a classic. It remains a classic. Itis as well known among us as Tather, Icannot tell a lie, or Ejigland expectsevery man to do his duty. TTie sign thatcost $1,000 a word, or $6,000 in all. wasthe famous Railroad Crossing—Stop,Look and Listen. 62 AXU LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING Feliniary. 1907. Railroading as a or the conveyance ofpersons or things from one place to an-other is probably one of the most an-cient of occupa
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . TORS. Paxon wrote cost $1,000 a word, but itwas a classic. It remains a classic. Itis as well known among us as Tather, Icannot tell a lie, or Ejigland expectsevery man to do his duty. TTie sign thatcost $1,000 a word, or $6,000 in all. wasthe famous Railroad Crossing—Stop,Look and Listen. 62 AXU LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING Feliniary. 1907. Railroading as a or the conveyance ofpersons or things from one place to an-other is probably one of the most an-cient of occupations. These wordsoccur in an article on the Evolution ofthe Book of Rules, written by G. Besler, general manager of theCentral Railroad of New Jersey, and large bridge on the same division wasthen rebuilt upon a really conservativeappropriation. However, the residentengineer contrived to save enough onthis job to fi.\ the little culvert and oneor two other places. The followingyear, when the aforesaid culvert didnot appear as needing repairs, the gen-eral oflice immediately inquired about. PUTTIN<; .\ LOT OF KNCLlSll LAXUSCAPE BEHIND THE REAR COACH. were quoted by Mr. Paul R. Brooks inopening his paper on railroading froma business point of view, before theNew York Railroad Club. First, be said, directness is the staffof business. This means that concen-trated responsibility must carry withit concentrated authority. A man musthave the power to remedy existing de-fects if he is to produce results. A su-pervisor is asked for his estimate ofnew rails required. He says 800 division engineer takes off 400 sohe will not have too much. The chiefengineer takes off 50 per cent fromthat and the general manager looks atthe 200 tons and says that nearly equalsnothing at all, and so the supervisorgets none. Now either he is compe-tent to run his department or he isnot. Expert special knowledge is oftenmistaken for executive ability. Thisthrows the real load, the work of
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