. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . k office to follow the in-stallation, operation and maintenance ofnew air brake equipment that was placedin service on electric locomotives andmotor cars during the inauguration ofthe New York Centrals terminal elec-trification. A year later he was calledback to Wilmerding to take charge of the .^ir Brake Publicity Department, wherehe remained until 1909, when he was ap-pointed assistant mechanical promotion came in 1910 with hisascension to assistant chief engineer (incharg
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . k office to follow the in-stallation, operation and maintenance ofnew air brake equipment that was placedin service on electric locomotives andmotor cars during the inauguration ofthe New York Centrals terminal elec-trification. A year later he was calledback to Wilmerding to take charge of the .^ir Brake Publicity Department, wherehe remained until 1909, when he was ap-pointed assistant mechanical promotion came in 1910 with hisascension to assistant chief engineer (incharge of operation), and in 1914 he wasadvanced to the position of chief engineer,which title he retained up to the time ofhis resignation. For the past 15 years Mr. Dudleysname has been bef< re the readers of thetechnical press in connection with articlesdevoted to air brake problems universalinterest in the transportation field. Heenjoys the happy faculty of combining afacile literary style with tlie keen, analy-tical insight of tlie trained engineer andthe ability to adapt himself readily to. .S.\.MLEL |l.■|^. tlie readers point of vio-, the re-■uit that most of his are of ac-knowledged permanent valre Peing in-timately associated with every develop-ment in the art of train braking that hastaken place in recent years, he is naturallyin a favorable position to discuss the sub-ject with a degree of understanding thatvery few men have been able to attain. The flattering statement that a manis a gentleman and a scholar is ex-tremely applicable to Mr. Dudley. Nobetter phrase could be found to describehim in character and c nduct. Hepossesses the quiet p( ise, dignity andiitellect that one immediately associateswith the chair of the professor which heelects to fill, yet he is extremely simpleand straightforward of approach, whollyunaffected in speech, and withal a man whose charm of personality and disposi-tion have made him uncommonly popular
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