. Railway mechanical engineer . 4-in. rivet shearing test as used to define the above expres-sion should be abandoned in favor of regular 9,000-lb. droptests, or preferably car-impact tests, until such time as amore convenient test for smoothness of gear action can be de-veloped. 8. That the American Railroad Association should pro-vide itself with a gravity car testing plant of the generalcharacter of that used for these tests, whereupon to conductsuch draft gear and ear construction tests as may be Scheduling and Routing Systems for Car Shops Applying Methods Used in Locomotive Wor
. Railway mechanical engineer . 4-in. rivet shearing test as used to define the above expres-sion should be abandoned in favor of regular 9,000-lb. droptests, or preferably car-impact tests, until such time as amore convenient test for smoothness of gear action can be de-veloped. 8. That the American Railroad Association should pro-vide itself with a gravity car testing plant of the generalcharacter of that used for these tests, whereupon to conductsuch draft gear and ear construction tests as may be Scheduling and Routing Systems for Car Shops Applying Methods Used in Locomotive Workto Freight and Passenger Car Repairs BY HENRY GARDNER Mechanical Engineer, Baltimore •& Ohio, Baltimore, Md. MANY forms of scheduling and routing systems havebeen developed and successfully installed in locomo-tive repair shops but, to date, very little has beenoffered as a guide for applying these principles to car re-pairs, either passenger or freight. Fundamentally, such sys-tems are very similar in outline and application and thereis no valid reason for assuming that a system which hasgreatly benefited a locomotive repair shop will not giveequally good results in a car repair shop. The quality oflabor employed and the quantity of cars repaired automatic-ally induce systematic operating methods. The essential features in the installation of schedulingand routing systems in locomotive repair shops may bebriefly reviewed as follows: (1 j A supervisor or schedule man and one or more as-sistants
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