. Railway mechanical engineer . stration last year have been completedby the builders, but cannot l;e stencilled liecause the railroadcom])anies, which are expected to take them and pay for them,have not yet accepted them. Over 26,000 of the 100,000standard cars ordered had been accepted by the roads toMarch ,51, according to a statement coni[)iled by the , but this docs not account for at least 10,000more than have been built, and are being held in storageuntil it can be ascertained whether the Railroad Administra-tion can force the companies to take them at the high pr
. Railway mechanical engineer . stration last year have been completedby the builders, but cannot l;e stencilled liecause the railroadcom])anies, which are expected to take them and pay for them,have not yet accepted them. Over 26,000 of the 100,000standard cars ordered had been accepted by the roads toMarch ,51, according to a statement coni[)iled by the , but this docs not account for at least 10,000more than have been built, and are being held in storageuntil it can be ascertained whether the Railroad Administra-tion can force the companies to take them at the high administration takes the position that it can, because theywere ordered under war conditions and allocated to thevarious roads, but many of the companies are not in a posi-tion to finance them, and meanwhile the Railroad .Adminis-tration is paying for them at the contract price minus anamount to cover the cost of stenciling. The standard locomo-tives, on the other hand, are being accepted as fast as they areturned Draft Gear Ten Fla„t of llC T. H. Sy,m,:Slo,< Comfany Draft Gear Test Demonstrations Method of Recording Action Under Impact BetweenCars Devised by Inspection and Test Section ON April 10 and 11 a series of public demonstrationswere conducted b) the Inspection and Test Sectionof the Division of Operation, United States RailroadAdministration, at the draft gear testing plant of the I. Company, Rochester, N. Y. The manufacturersof draft gears, the draft gear committee of the mechanical sec-tion of the American Railroad Association, the mechanicalcommittee of the Railroad Administration and a number ofrailroad officers were present. The purpose of thedemonstration was to disclose in advance of a series ofofficial dratt gear tests to l5e conducted at this plant, themethods ot testing which will lie followed, and jMrticularl)-to demonstrate the operation of the devices which have l^eendeveloped to graphically record the action of the draft g
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