. Railway mechanical engineer . et on thejob and get busy. Giving instructions to his clerk to callthe wrecking crew, he rushed out to the turn-table. By the tinn he again had things moving it was mid- 37 38 RAILWAY MECHANICAL ENGINEER Vol. 94, No. 1 afternoon. He went to his office for a little rest and, stretch-ing out in his office chair, he prepared to take a little office was hot, close and the air stuffy, hence in a fewminutes he was sound asleep. Suddenly he was awakened b) his clerk, who told himthat the superintendent of motive power had just gotten offNo. 4 at the depot and w
. Railway mechanical engineer . et on thejob and get busy. Giving instructions to his clerk to callthe wrecking crew, he rushed out to the turn-table. By the tinn he again had things moving it was mid- 37 38 RAILWAY MECHANICAL ENGINEER Vol. 94, No. 1 afternoon. He went to his office for a little rest and, stretch-ing out in his office chair, he prepared to take a little office was hot, close and the air stuffy, hence in a fewminutes he was sound asleep. Suddenly he was awakened b) his clerk, who told himthat the superintendent of motive power had just gotten offNo. 4 at the depot and was headed for the roundhouse. Picking up his gloves, he saw his partly written out resig-nation. \Miat an opportunity. Now he would tell theS. M. r. right to his face that he was quitting. He wouldnot send a message, for that would be too brief. He had alot of things he wanted to get off his chest, and now wasthe chance. Going out through the house he met the S. M. P., andthey began to talk over several routine matters. At last. can get out of the rut and I will be the first man to shoveyou ahead. There was no answer to this argument. Jim Dugan couldsee how true it was. He had buried himself; for nine yearshe had been his own worst enemy. When first he had takenhold of Crossover he had made a few half-hearted attemptsto introduce new- ideas, but as he had had no support fromheadquarters he had given up and slipped back into a rut,until now he was standing still. He would get support now. I will not resign, but from today on I shall act as if Ihad just been appointed to my present position. You areto know me not as Jim Dugan of the past nine years but asJim Dugan with a future before him, said Jim. Lets shake on that, was all the S. M. P. could answer. Jim Dugan faced a task. Many times during the nextfew weeks he was at tlie point of giving up, but he wouldgrit his teeth and mutter, Ill show^ him. And as he progressed he began to feel ashamed of him-self. Jim Dugan saw many of
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