. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . heat of the elec-tric arc can only effect a weld which isapt to concentrate these strains and pro-duce a joint liable to fracture on coolingdown. In motor cylinders and otherstructures of thin section this effect ofelectric welding is so marked that the oxy-acetylene process is almost invariably em-ployed for such repairs. For the weldingof aluminum, copper, brass and bronze,electric welding is also unsuitable and theoxy-acetylene process is usually employedfor such work. Fuel Oil for French
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . heat of the elec-tric arc can only effect a weld which isapt to concentrate these strains and pro-duce a joint liable to fracture on coolingdown. In motor cylinders and otherstructures of thin section this effect ofelectric welding is so marked that the oxy-acetylene process is almost invariably em-ployed for such repairs. For the weldingof aluminum, copper, brass and bronze,electric welding is also unsuitable and theoxy-acetylene process is usually employedfor such work. Fuel Oil for French RailroadsThe serious scarcity of coal on Frenchrailroads has caused the Paris, Lyons, andMediterranean Railway Company to trans-form some of its motive power from coalto fuel oil consumption, which is about tobe followed by the Chemin de Fer delEtat, or State-owned Railway, andengines at its shop at Saintes are nowundergoing changes for experimental pur-poses. Much attention is being directedto the announcement that the first-namedrailway company is planning to equip 200li comotives for fuel RECLAIMED MATERIAL, KECLAMATION PLANT, V1RGINIAK RAILROAD. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING October. 1920 Sixteenth Annual Convention of the InternationalRailway General Foremens Association Addresses Reports of Comifutteee Election of Officer* The . convention of the Inter-national Railway General Foremens wheld at Chicago on Sept7-10, inclusive, President Win. I. ; hicago & Northwestern, presiding Vn ad-dress of welcome to the delegates andvisitors was made by Robert Qua]oral superintendent of motive power andmachinery oi the Chicago & Northwest-ern, wherein he laid particular stress onthe importance of the duties entrusted tothe general foremen in railroad repairshops, and pointed out the fact that large-ly by reason of the skill of American me-chanics the railroads were enabled to movethe ever-growing amount of freightcheaper than can be done in any othercountry
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