. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . f vital importance to somehundred odd thousand of engineers andfiremen is the making of good many men with paper records,pull, hold on the company throughaccident, ability to bulldoze, as wellas soft soap. The men get the posi-tions where life is made a misery forthe subordinates who are compelled totake their orders or abuse. However,we have many officials who are gen-tlemen in every sense of the term,thank the Lord. Let the milleniumcome. Augustine Holtzkopf. Wheeling, W. Va. R
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . f vital importance to somehundred odd thousand of engineers andfiremen is the making of good many men with paper records,pull, hold on the company throughaccident, ability to bulldoze, as wellas soft soap. The men get the posi-tions where life is made a misery forthe subordinates who are compelled totake their orders or abuse. However,we have many officials who are gen-tlemen in every sense of the term,thank the Lord. Let the milleniumcome. Augustine Holtzkopf. Wheeling, W. Va. Reseating Safety Valves. Editor : The print I send you shows our methodof reseating safety valves without takingthem from boiler. This method does first-class work and we have no occasion toremove safety valves until they are worn the value which a positive signal wouldbe to the inexperienced train crew is in-estimable. The front end of an engineis now taken up with headlight, classifi-cation lamps, flag-staflfs and markerstands. Where is there room for more?Simply by placing or arranging these ap-. APP.\R.\TUS rSED FOR StVFETV VAL\ES out. The facing and reseating tools areheld central by brass nut, as shown insection, and a few turns of each tool com-pletes the work. This tool will interestany one who is removing safety valvesfor reseating. Chas. Maskel,Shop Foreman, C. & N. W. , la. Identification and Schedule FulfilledSignals. Editor: Much has appeared in print in the sun-dry railway magazines and journals dur-ing the past three years, pro and con,relative to the necessity of identificationand schedule fulfilled signals. Whileall writers on the subject are in unisonas to the place of location for a identifi-cation signal or indicator, viz.: That itshould be carried on the front end of atrain, which would be on the front endof the engine. There is much diversityof opinion as regards the location andkind of signal which would prove of valueas a schedule fu
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