. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . 12J4mile in length. Two, the St. Gothardand Lotschberg, are over 9l/s miles inlength. The Mont Cenis is a little over7 miles in length. The Arlberg, in Aus-tria, is 6J4 miles long. There are fourtunnels between 5 and 6 miles in length,five between 4 and 5 miles in length, sev-en between 3 and 4 miles, and sixteentunnels that are over 2 miles long. Thelongest tunnel in this country, the Hoosac,is 4{<3 miles long. It may be added thatthere are several longer tunnels in thecourse of construct
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . 12J4mile in length. Two, the St. Gothardand Lotschberg, are over 9l/s miles inlength. The Mont Cenis is a little over7 miles in length. The Arlberg, in Aus-tria, is 6J4 miles long. There are fourtunnels between 5 and 6 miles in length,five between 4 and 5 miles in length, sev-en between 3 and 4 miles, and sixteentunnels that are over 2 miles long. Thelongest tunnel in this country, the Hoosac,is 4{<3 miles long. It may be added thatthere are several longer tunnels in thecourse of construction, but they will notbe finished for several years. 22 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. January, 1914. General Foremens Department Erie Apprentice Schools. By Angus Sinclair, Special Instructor. The Erie Railroad Company maintains schools for the technical instruction of apprentices at five of their repair shops, date must be of the age between sixteenand twenty-one years, enjoying goodgeneral health. Applicants addicted tothe cigarette or other unhealthy habitsare at once invariably USING STEREOPTICON TO SHOW WORK OF AN APPRENTICE. an arrangement which is cultivating ahigh standard of mechanical and scien-tific efficiency among a class of youngmen who are being prepared to becomeleaders in their business in the near fu-ture. The company, in the establishmentof apprentice schools at its differentshops, has for its primary object themaking of first-class skilled mechanics torecruit the shop forces with men trainedand educated in Erie standards andmethods. The company furnishes class rooms,properly heated and lighted, with draw-ing instruments, drawing tables, black-boards and all necessary material neededin the line of instruction, all of which issupplied free to the apprentices. The plan of organization is: First.—A supervisor of apprentices. Second.—An assistant supervisor of —A technical instructor for allshops having fifty or more appre
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