. Railway mechanical engineer . NT The geographical location of a railroad governs to a largeextent the practices to be followed in the reclamation of scrapmaterial. Some roads find it to their advantage to concen-trate the classifying, reclaiming and salvaging at one principalpoint on the S3Stem, while other roads salvage and reclaim agreat amount of material at the various shop points, leavingthe classifying to be done at the scrap docks. This latterpractice the (ireat Northern has found it expedient to follow,owing to llu number and location of its shops; and ius sliopmen are so trained tha
. Railway mechanical engineer . NT The geographical location of a railroad governs to a largeextent the practices to be followed in the reclamation of scrapmaterial. Some roads find it to their advantage to concen-trate the classifying, reclaiming and salvaging at one principalpoint on the S3Stem, while other roads salvage and reclaim agreat amount of material at the various shop points, leavingthe classifying to be done at the scrap docks. This latterpractice the (ireat Northern has found it expedient to follow,owing to llu number and location of its shops; and ius sliopmen are so trained that but little usable material finds its wayto the general scrap docks. Thus it is only necessary toclassify the scrap, salvaging what material is picked up fromthe road, such as track material, wreckage, etc., which isbrought directly to the scrap dock. The bulk of the scrap is received at St. Cloud, Minn., 75miles west of St. Paul, where it is sorted and held for ship-ment to the scrap dealers, with the exception of the wrought. Fig. 1—Scrap Pile at St. Cloud iron scrap, which is salvaged or worked over into first classbar iron in the rolling mill at that point. On the extremewest end of the system the scrap is classified and sold directto the mills in that vicinity. By following this plan a largeamount of cross hauling of the reclaimed material is elimi-nated, the stores department is relieved of a large amount ofaccounting, since the material reclaimed is turned directlyinto the local stock, and the shops receive direct credit forthe amount of material they reclaim. While the company has met with marked success in operat-ing on this basis the chief point of interest is the reworkingof the wrought iron scrap at St. Cloud, .At this point thecompany operates a full fledged rolling mill for this purpose,and since it was started in .August. 1913, it has reworked allof the wrought scrap originating on the entire S3stem at asubstantial profit. During the year 1914 this mill produc
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