. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . teen huge packing cases out of a 25 26 THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZINE ships hold, knocks them apart andmagically whips the pieces together intoa complete locomotive. It assembles every day—now that theplant is running full speed-^six of these knocked down locomotives. And, onthe side, it puts wheels and cabs andaccessories on six more set up locomo-tives, the kind that are yanked out of aships hold practically ready for the rails. The censor wont let me give the nameof this French town. But in the geogra-phy of locomotive manufacture its just
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . teen huge packing cases out of a 25 26 THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZINE ships hold, knocks them apart andmagically whips the pieces together intoa complete locomotive. It assembles every day—now that theplant is running full speed-^six of these knocked down locomotives. And, onthe side, it puts wheels and cabs andaccessories on six more set up locomo-tives, the kind that are yanked out of aships hold practically ready for the rails. The censor wont let me give the nameof this French town. But in the geogra-phy of locomotive manufacture its justas important as Philadelphia or Schenec-tady, ,the formerwith itsBaldwinL o c o m o-tive worksand the lat-ter with itsAmericanL o c o m o-tive Com-pany. The greatchunksthat comecrated inthe nine-teen pack-ing cases—nineteen toeach loco-motive—weigh any-where fromtwo or threetons tothirty theseknockeddown pieceson the waythroughthe UnitedStates armylocomotiveworks gothrough cx-actly thesame oper-ations,) ^ex-c e p t for. CAPTAIN JOHN M(DONOUGH bolting frames and cylinders togetherand setting valves, as the locomotivesthat come out of either the Baldwin orthe American Locomotive works backhome. Taking the frames, cylinders and valvesinto consideration, the output of the armyplant here is just as high as either of thosebig works. Thats the claim of CaptainJohn McDonough, who is president,general manager, superintendent andforeman of the army locomotive works. Back in the States Captain Mc-Donough was assistant superintendent of theMountClare shopsof theBaltimoreand OhioRailroad. Six hun-dred andseventy-nine com-plete loco-motiveswereturned outof the shopsup to Sep-tember Octo-ber 1 theoutput hadpassed the750 plantwas startedOctober 15,1917, but ittook threemonths forit to getunder way. Of theoutput allexcept 100locomo-tives arebeingdriven byAmericanengineersand fire- THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZINE 27 men, all of them enlisted men, over ne
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