. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . esign. The conservation of fuel is a question uppermost in themind of the railway officer. Probably never in the historyof railroading has there been witnessed such a determinedeffort to get every possible heat unit out of a pound of coaland utilize it as during the last year or two. The educa-tion of the man on the locomotive is important, but recog-nition of all that goes to constitute a hundred per centlocomotive is equally important. That within a few vearsover fifty railroads have adopte
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . esign. The conservation of fuel is a question uppermost in themind of the railway officer. Probably never in the historyof railroading has there been witnessed such a determinedeffort to get every possible heat unit out of a pound of coaland utilize it as during the last year or two. The educa-tion of the man on the locomotive is important, but recog-nition of all that goes to constitute a hundred per centlocomotive is equally important. That within a few vearsover fifty railroads have adopted Thermic Syphons asstandard on locomotives is an indication that railwayofficers very generally are keenly alive to the problem offuel conservation and locomotive efficiencv. The Thirty-First Annual Convention of the Air Brake Association The thirty-first annual convention of the Air BrakeAssociation was held at Montreal, Que., Canada. Theaddress of the president, George H. Wood, was broad-casted by radio from the ballroom of the Mount RoyalHotel, so that absent members had an opportunity to hear. George H. Wood, General Air Brake Instructor, A. T. &S. F. Ry., President Air Brake Association the address of President Wood. This was the first timea president of a railway association in convention hadaddressed absent members by radio. Committee reports or papers were presented covering the following subjects:Brake Pipe Leakage. Condemning Limits of A. R. S. Standard TripleValve Parts. Passenger Train Handling; Graduated Triple Valve Test Rack papers were also presented as follows: Freight Car Foundation Brake Designs, by W. , General Air Brake Inspector, CanadianPacific Railway. Reclamation of Hose and Fittings, bv Tames , A. T. & S. F. Ry. Reclamation of Air Brake Material, bv A. Skinner,Air Brake Foreman, A. T. & S. Ry. Methods of Interesting and Instructing RailwayEmployees in the Maintenance and Operation
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