. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . technical instruction for chanical engineers out of shop workmen,but the making of first-class skilled me-chanics to recruit the shop forces withmen trained and educated in Erie stand- in view the company established ap-prentice schools at Meadville, Hornell,Susquehanna and Dunmore shops, andsome time later at Port Jervis. The **& mziMJL 9 m g -, £, a m j© : t © Wfi|ps:v^3 BmT\T/ ^_y,TTTr^BFT7TBBfrr. \ -\J&Lji i.*&3&$£-. iww» t^vw* *• ^HHB5t ^^B^X\TjI^^IBe~ i \ % APPRENTICES, ERIE RAILROAD SH
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . technical instruction for chanical engineers out of shop workmen,but the making of first-class skilled me-chanics to recruit the shop forces withmen trained and educated in Erie stand- in view the company established ap-prentice schools at Meadville, Hornell,Susquehanna and Dunmore shops, andsome time later at Port Jervis. The **& mziMJL 9 m g -, £, a m j© : t © Wfi|ps:v^3 BmT\T/ ^_y,TTTr^BFT7TBBfrr. \ -\J&Lji i.*&3&$£-. iww» t^vw* *• ^HHB5t ^^B^X\TjI^^IBe~ i \ % APPRENTICES, ERIE RAILROAD SHOPS. MEADVILLE, PA. the apprentices working in the repairshops, connected with the company. The scheme of industrial education, asannounced bv the Erie management, was ards and Erie in the latest June, 1908, it was decided to estab-lish a thorough apprenticeship system totrain young men, not only to competency company furnishes class rooms, heat andlight, drawing tables, drawing instru-ments, blackboards and all necessary ma-terial for conducting the schools. The. STANDARD AMERICAN TYPE LOCOMOTIVE. DRAWN BY G. WALLACE FORDYCE, THIRD YEAR ERIE , PA. as follows: The Erie Railroad Com- and skill in the mechanic arts, but also only requirements imposed upon the ap- pany, in the establishment of apprentice to interest in business, loyalty to the prentice is regular attendance at the schools at the different shops, has for its railroad and familiarity with Erie stand- the schools and intelligent attention to primary object, not the making of me- ards and methods. With these objects the studies. August, 1912. RAILWAY AXD LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. 277 Instruction in the classes cover thefundamental rules of arithmetic, commonand decimal fractions, proportion, simpleproblems of interest tables and elementary principles of plain andsolid geometry, mechanical drawing,practical and theoretical mechanics, andinstruction in Erie standards perta
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