. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . eman checks offfrom the list until tin work is com-pleted. You can readily see how aforeman can keep in touch with hiswork by consulting his repair -heet andthe erecting foreman and checking updaily without walking all over the shopto ni it. i he pi igi es of the work. W. Smith, C. & X. W.: Some onehas spoken of the lack of super,in most organizations; that is a pointthat it would do well to bring out, es-pecially in the large there are forty or fifty stallsthe roundhouse fo
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . eman checks offfrom the list until tin work is com-pleted. You can readily see how aforeman can keep in touch with hiswork by consulting his repair -heet andthe erecting foreman and checking updaily without walking all over the shopto ni it. i he pi igi es of the work. W. Smith, C. & X. W.: Some onehas spoken of the lack of super,in most organizations; that is a pointthat it would do well to bring out, es-pecially in the large there are forty or fifty stallsthe roundhouse foreman is often ex-pected to look after all the work. Heis so busy he cannot gain the most ef-ficient results. Some master mechan-ics seem to be averse to increasing su-pervision; they think it is non-produc-tive. I think it is a mistake. The or-ganizations in the roundhouses of theLake Shore and Pennsylvania are idealin this respect. They have a passengerforeman, freight foreman and boilerforeman—with the roundhouse foremanover all. The organizations is the roundhouse foreman has. W. G. Executive Committee. General Fore-mer. everything to carry in his head he can-not give the most efficient results; hemay overlook certain important work,with the result that engines go out andmake failures. When the passengerforeman is in charge of such enginesand is responsible for them, he can seethat the work is properly done and canplan ahead. T. A. Boyden, Erie: In our engine 386 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING September, 1911. touch with each other in house we have working leaders who re- We come oort direct to the roundhouse foreman, that way and gain a closer understand- a leader over the passenger ing of the possibilities of, what can be foreman wdl put t on the blacksmith find fault with the machine foremanfor not getting out work; the machine We have department and one over the freightdepartment; the report to the round-house foreman, and he to me. We als
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