. Railway mechanical engineer . having cut out with his oxy-acetylene torch 0-inch countersunk rivets from an oiltank cover in 55 minutes. The work was so well done thatthe rivets came out with one stroke of the maul and punch.—Ameriiran Machinist. For tables showing car conditions since the middle of July, see theRaihvay Mechanical Eneinecr for November, page 614. and December,page 656, Our Railway War Forces Abroad An Account of the Problems Encountered in Franceand the Shop Facilities for Erecting Equipment THE January j issue of Railway Age contains a signedarticle by Samuel O. Dunn,
. Railway mechanical engineer . having cut out with his oxy-acetylene torch 0-inch countersunk rivets from an oiltank cover in 55 minutes. The work was so well done thatthe rivets came out with one stroke of the maul and punch.—Ameriiran Machinist. For tables showing car conditions since the middle of July, see theRaihvay Mechanical Eneinecr for November, page 614. and December,page 656, Our Railway War Forces Abroad An Account of the Problems Encountered in Franceand the Shop Facilities for Erecting Equipment THE January j issue of Railway Age contains a signedarticle by Samuel O. Dunn, editor of that paper,which gives the first account of what the TransportationDepartment of the A. E. F. has done since America enteredthe war. Mr. Dunn, who has just returned from England andFrance, was the first American press representative to visitTours, the headquarters of the Transportation Corps, sincethe signing of the armistice. He was given full access to allsources of information as to what has been accomplished by. Repairing Locomotives at Nevers our American railwa> men. The following, which is of par-ticular interest to our readers, is taken from that article; When the States entered the war in April, 1917,the officers and employees of American railwajs knew ex-tremely little—in fact, practically all of them knew next tonothing—about the way in which the railways of Europewere constructed, equipped and operated. Even as late asJuly, 1917, the transportation department was One year later—in June, 1918—it had a per-sonnel of l,.iOO officers and 30,000 men, was operating
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