. Railway mechanical engineer . well fitted, 702 December, 1917 RAILWAY MECHANICAL ENGINEER 703 now filled by men. For example, there are a great manymale clerks employed in places where women, after a shortperiod of training, could handle the work with little diffi-culty. At the Havelock, Neb., shops of the Chicago, Bur-lington & Quincy a woman is employed in distributing blue-prints with entire success, although the work requires someknowledge of locomotive parts in addition to an understand-ing of the filing system. At Havelock women are also doingwork which requires considerable skill, suc
. Railway mechanical engineer . well fitted, 702 December, 1917 RAILWAY MECHANICAL ENGINEER 703 now filled by men. For example, there are a great manymale clerks employed in places where women, after a shortperiod of training, could handle the work with little diffi-culty. At the Havelock, Neb., shops of the Chicago, Bur-lington & Quincy a woman is employed in distributing blue-prints with entire success, although the work requires someknowledge of locomotive parts in addition to an understand-ing of the filing system. At Havelock women are also doingwork which requires considerable skill, such as operatinglathes, milling machines, gear cutters and shapers. Theirwork has been found highly satisfactory, and, though a trifleslower than men, they seldom make mistakes and do veryaccurate work. An instance which shows the natural adaptability for ma-chine work that some women display will serve to indicatethe possibilities for women in railroad shop work. A younglady who, after graduating from a university, had been. A Woman Operator at the Pocatello Shops of the Oregon ShortLine Milling the Ports in a Valve Chamber Bushing teaching the sciences in a Nebraska high school, secured aposition in the Havelock shops of the C, B. & Q., thinkingthe experience she could gain during the summer would beof value to her in teaching. She became so proficient thatshe was assigned to lathe work in the tool room, and the workproved so fascinating that she resigned from her teachingposition. Although the lady in question had intended to re-main in the shops indefinitely, her stay there was limited tothree months. At the end of that time a vacancy occurredin the general offices of the mechanical department, for whichshe was particularly qualified by reason of her shop experi-ence, and she is now holding a responsible position in theoffices of the general superintendent of motive power. At the Pocatello, Idaho, shops of the Oregon Short Linewomen are now handling a large part of the work i
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