. Railway mechanical engineer . Illinois: 48 passenger cars onthe Erie, and 6 passenger cars on the New York orders now on the books include brakes for theNew York. Chicago & St. Louis: Pere Marquette: RockIsland; Erie: Norfolk & Western; Missouri, Kansas &Texas; and El Paso & Southwestern. .\ number of enginemen and brakemen of various roadswho have operated trains on which automatic .straight airbrakes were in use have been called to testify as to theoperative results obtained. From present indications it appears that the hearing willbe thorough and will last for some tim
. Railway mechanical engineer . Illinois: 48 passenger cars onthe Erie, and 6 passenger cars on the New York orders now on the books include brakes for theNew York. Chicago & St. Louis: Pere Marquette: RockIsland; Erie: Norfolk & Western; Missouri, Kansas &Texas; and El Paso & Southwestern. .\ number of enginemen and brakemen of various roadswho have operated trains on which automatic .straight airbrakes were in use have been called to testify as to theoperative results obtained. From present indications it appears that the hearing willbe thorough and will last for some time, as many additionalwitnesses are to be called. These will include additional for the .Automatic Straight .Air Brake Company, alsowitnesses for the Westinghouse .Air Brake Company and prob-ably others for the railroads or called by the Safety Bureau oftlie Interstate Commerce Commi.^sion. The aliove covers the evidence presented during the firstweek. Further details will be given in the next The Design of Passenger Car Repair Shops Requirements for Various Departments Outlined andTypical Layouts Proposed by Committee AT the 1922 convention of the American Railway En-gineering Association, the Committee on Shops andLocomotive Terminals presented a report on the de-sign of car shops prepared by a sub-committee, of which Sillcox, general superintendent of motive power of theChicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, was chairman, the othermembers being Walter Goldstraw, E. M. Haas, L. L. Tallyn,and A. M. Zabriskie. This report includes much valuableinformation not only from the standpoint of new shop lay-outs, but also suggestions for the operation of existing account of its general interest, it is reproduced in partbelow: So many passenger car repair shops throughout the coun-try today have a lifty-year-old nucleus, w-ith piece-mealadditions, in which the shopmen are making the most ofwhat their shops possess, and are struggling along as bestthey c
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