. Railway age gazette . giv-ing figures to show that during the fiscal year 1914 the systemmade a saving in car hire balance of $430,865, a daily averagesaving of $1,180, or the equivalent of 2,622 car days. The aver-age mileage per car per day for all cars on the line increasedfrom in 1912-13, to in 1913-14, while the movementof foreign cars increased from to miles per car perday. The bulletin states that these results were accomplishedby eternal vigilance and persistent plugging on the part ofhundreds of loyal employees in the campaign to save car days;and it urges all th
. Railway age gazette . giv-ing figures to show that during the fiscal year 1914 the systemmade a saving in car hire balance of $430,865, a daily averagesaving of $1,180, or the equivalent of 2,622 car days. The aver-age mileage per car per day for all cars on the line increasedfrom in 1912-13, to in 1913-14, while the movementof foreign cars increased from to miles per car perday. The bulletin states that these results were accomplishedby eternal vigilance and persistent plugging on the part ofhundreds of loyal employees in the campaign to save car days;and it urges all the employees and the officers to continue theirefforts in this direction. The bulletin concludes with the fol-lowing : From the present unsettled outlook, due to the Europeanwar, the company is going to need every car day we can putaway in our savings banks. Lets watch the little car days, and make the slogan Savethe Car Days next in importance to Safety First. Ill be glad to get a note from any one any time, telling how. -S84 ->^n^ Bottom CoyerP/a/e 1^ 7^1 r J, I 1^. —I—-—I—\\ T P^ n -^ 3%/S^\ ^ k- k- 78i t soi Y- -7%- \ 9C,Z£* 3eoLong \V_-^_^_^_^ ^■-- -zs/o!^. -7 7M- H- steel Underframe for Application to Wocden Gondola Cars sisting of 5 in., 9 lb. channels, 4 ft. 7 13/16 in. long. These con-nect to the top cover plate of the bolster and to a casting at thejunction of the end and side sills of the wooden in the case of the box car underframe, the end sill bearsagainst the castings which connect the center sills near the the gondolas the distance between truck centers is 25 in., while on the box cars it is 26 ft. 10 in. The box car you have saved a car day. Am sure the assistant general man-ager will take time to look at such notes as I may pass alongto him; and the president, too—he is never too busy to hearabout a piece of good work in the line of car movement. After all, when you come to think of it, thats what we areall here fo
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