. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . I never learned their classtill I wrote to R.\ilw.\v .\.\d LocomotiveEngineering recently and in a fewdays received a most interesting lettertelling me they were known as ClassK. If any readers of this letter are inter-ested in the motive power of the R. I would like to hear from themthrough our mutual friend, ;vND Locomotive I wouldparticularly like to see some photo-graphs of the eight-wheelers before theremoval of their wheel-covers, etc. Hugh G. Boutell, irashiii
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . I never learned their classtill I wrote to R.\ilw.\v .\.\d LocomotiveEngineering recently and in a fewdays received a most interesting lettertelling me they were known as ClassK. If any readers of this letter are inter-ested in the motive power of the R. I would like to hear from themthrough our mutual friend, ;vND Locomotive I wouldparticularly like to see some photo-graphs of the eight-wheelers before theremoval of their wheel-covers, etc. Hugh G. Boutell, irashiiigton, D. C. Railway Clubs of the So. Pac. It is their care that the gear engages,It is their care that the switches lock. —: It is not a far cry back to the timewhen a plan for such an institution asa club for the workers of a railway company, supported by the company,would have been an idle dream, andanyone suggesting such a scheme to aboard of directors would have beenthought a sentimental idealist not worththe time of an interview. But moreand mtire. as time goes on, do we find. h 11 P. ENGINE, P. R. R. a growing appreciation of the fact that,for the same reason that a machinemust not be left exposed in a dampplace, for fear of rust, the man whoruns that machine must not be allowedto live in conditions which tend to de-grade his physical and moral sensi-bilities. That a great railroad corpora-tion is inaugurating a system of club-houses in which its employees may restand recreate themselves while off duty,and is finding the expenditure to be anegligible quantity in comparison to thereturns in increased efficiency and alengthened average period of service, isa conclusive refutation of the oldtheories and a promise of better thingsto come. The engineer and fireman of a pas-senger train have as much dependingon them as any other two workmenin tin; world. The machine which theyhandle has been brought to its presentstate of perfection only through yearsof
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