. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . with what you have, where you are. One apprentice boy was selected as apace maker or general foreman. He inturn picked out two other apprentice boys. dry apprentices cast aluminum patternsand later made castings from same forthe model locomotive. ( )ne hundred days from the date ofreceiving the order to build, a young ma-chine shop and enough castings made inthe school foundry to start work on themodel locomotive was ready and in twohundred days from the time the order tobuild was received, t
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . with what you have, where you are. One apprentice boy was selected as apace maker or general foreman. He inturn picked out two other apprentice boys. dry apprentices cast aluminum patternsand later made castings from same forthe model locomotive. ( )ne hundred days from the date ofreceiving the order to build, a young ma-chine shop and enough castings made inthe school foundry to start work on themodel locomotive was ready and in twohundred days from the time the order tobuild was received, the model was de-livered to New York City. This piece of work is sure to make theapprentices careful and good print readers,to say nothing about being good me-chanics, they are able to double their earn-ing capacity for they are of double valueto their employer. True, they made a lotof failures, and perhaps will in the fu-ture, but they profit by it every time, andeach day sees some boy better than theaverage. Another working a little harderthan the bunch and while they are all C\ O, d ? ^ ® rs ». MODEL OF A K-4 PACIFIC TYPE \ VI-., BUILT BY THE APPRENTICES IN TIIF. DUNMORE SHOPS, PA., ERIE RAILROAD. SCALE—ONE-SIXTEENTH. a model of a Pacific K-4 class of a loco-motive in running order, built at the ErieDunmore shops by 15 apprentices in 200u i irking days. I f you have any mechanical sand inyour dome, you will say it is some job,and it is perfect in every detail from printto paint, but wait! here is the story ofhow it was built, entirely in the apprenticeschool. The management of the Erie Railroaddesired to test the apprentice boys inprint reading, so it sent a shop order tothe Dunmore apprentice school to build aClass-K-4 locomotive complete in everydetail from prints furnished, same to beone-sixteenth scale, the entire locomotiveto be constructed of aluminum metal andto work as a running model, the same tobe placed on exhibition (after being in-spected by the officials) at
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