. Official proceedings . time while the waiters are preparingthe usual lunch for any questions you may desire to ask. Be-fore doing so, however, we have with us one of the oldest trackwalkers and section men on the P. & L. E., who has been gen-eral foreman of track longer than any other man in the may not want to talk, because he never will speak in pub-lic, but I would like to have Tim Hartnett stand up. (Mr. Hartnett was greeted with vigorous applause.) I do not think I should be required to call on any ^e have a splendid attendance and a large number of visitors,and I hope the
. Official proceedings . time while the waiters are preparingthe usual lunch for any questions you may desire to ask. Be-fore doing so, however, we have with us one of the oldest trackwalkers and section men on the P. & L. E., who has been gen-eral foreman of track longer than any other man in the may not want to talk, because he never will speak in pub-lic, but I would like to have Tim Hartnett stand up. (Mr. Hartnett was greeted with vigorous applause.) I do not think I should be required to call on any ^e have a splendid attendance and a large number of visitors,and I hope the visitors will find the evening of sufficient inter-est to give them the wish to join the Club. Dr. John S. Unger, 148 of the Carnegie Steel Company, is here and I will ask him toopen the discussion. DR. JOHN S. UNGER: Mr. Chairman and Gentleman:—We have listened to a very excellent address by Mr. are all very much interested in what he had to say. Mr. Xeubert says the principal cause of rail failures is. Double Split Head. L. S. Co., 1909, Heat #3592, 80#- SYs Rail. Removed from North Bound Track 3 Miles South of Geneva Station, March 12 ,1912. Covered by MW-7 Report #77. transverse fissures. Out of a list of 1,200 rail failures on a cer-tain railroad, only 70 of the 1,200 could be traced to transversefissures. The rest of them were failures of other kinds. knows that the question uf transverse fissures as acause of rail failures is being investigated very carefully by ajoint committee com])osed of prominent railroad officials ot States and all the rail makers in the United Slates,who have been giving close attention tr) this ])r()blem at theUniversity of Illinrjis for more than a year, making a study ofwhat causes rail failures, particularly transverse fissures. U]).to the i^resent time they have not reached any definite con-clusions. 149 The rail situation is peculiar. At a meeting in Chicago lastMarch of a joint committee composed of railro
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