. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ervice, where, when business washeavy and shortage of power prevailed,it was the common practice to permit en-gine and train crews to remain on dutyseveral hours waiting for an engine tobe made ready to begin their run. Asidefrom the expensive features of this planit was found that too often a delay at theinitial terminal meant the shortening ofthe run and the cutting of engine milagebefore the completion of the trip. Toeliminate such delays, and to provide thatmost of the 16 hours go in on t
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ervice, where, when business washeavy and shortage of power prevailed,it was the common practice to permit en-gine and train crews to remain on dutyseveral hours waiting for an engine tobe made ready to begin their run. Asidefrom the expensive features of this planit was found that too often a delay at theinitial terminal meant the shortening ofthe run and the cutting of engine milagebefore the completion of the trip. Toeliminate such delays, and to provide thatmost of the 16 hours go in on train move-ment, caused many changes in dispatchingmethods to be made and much improve-ment has been eflfccted along that line. Our attention has been called to thever) favorable showing made in thisdirection by the Lackawanna, especiallyon the Scranton division of which H. Shepard is superintendent, and Shoemaker is master that division the commodity handledis the coal mined in the territory con-tiguous to Scranton, Wilkes-Barre andother points in Xorth-Eastern Pennsyl-. \Ii:\V OF WITH SUPERHEATER IN PL.\CE. There is a hour of departure set foreach train. This system works out verywell, but occasionally when wrecks, etc.,tie up the incoming power the mechanicaldepartment linds itself badly handicappedin adhcaring to the order given, as inbusy times all available power is engagedand passes in and out steadily, there be-ing no appreciable margin left to take upany interruptions in traffic movements. patched for every complete days serviceperformed by it. No credit is taken forextra coaling, cleaning or fire, sandingand turning or other attention given to anengine during the performance of a daysservice. In the table of delays there aretwo very significant lines; these arenumber of engines delayed in 1908 andin 1909, and the number of engines dis-patched to one delayed. SU.\IM.\KV OF ENGINES DELAYED AT — SCRANTON DIVISION.
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