. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ng out the viewson both sides and give us a fair compari-son of the advantages and disadvantagesof the system. In the first place. I wishto state most emphatically that I am un-interested in the matter, except to see theroad with which I am connected run oneconomical lines, believing that we aremore apt to receive a better compensationif the cost of maintenance is reduced tothe minimum. Let us take for an example a road or adivision of a system having 200 enginesand 800 miles of road, 250 engineers and25
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ng out the viewson both sides and give us a fair compari-son of the advantages and disadvantagesof the system. In the first place. I wishto state most emphatically that I am un-interested in the matter, except to see theroad with which I am connected run oneconomical lines, believing that we aremore apt to receive a better compensationif the cost of maintenance is reduced tothe minimum. Let us take for an example a road or adivision of a system having 200 enginesand 800 miles of road, 250 engineers and250 firemen, making a mileage of month. It will take eight inspectors,machinists, boiler makers and air men toinspect those engines, and then only halfas well as the engineers would do it with-out compensation. Allow the inspectors$ each per day, and it amounts to $20per day, $7,300 per year. A boy puttingsupplies on engines at $ or $ peryear. All master mechanics know and expectthat the cost of repairs will be greater un-der this system; and we believe that the. CURIOUS RESULT OF A WRECK. FIG. 1. prove as large an item in dollars and cents,we will not attempt to compute theamount. But from the conclusion drawnwe have: Cost of inspection per year $;M Engine supplies per year 45J Extra cost of labor in making re-pairs per year Extra cost of fuel, at $ perton, per year Total $131,776 Supposing a new engine to cost $8, would buy 16^2 engines per year, andin twelve years it would buy an entire newequipment of engines. Now why will the pool system never besuccessful ? To get good work from anumber of men, there must be some in-centive, besides the money we can get them on a competitive basis,that is all that is necessary. When a gun system, and I will show you a man who isan engineer in name only. He is afraidto enter the competitive list on his merits,or he is too lazy to keep his work up. ordoesnt have the a
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