. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . heory is that inthis day of specialization the right prin-ciple is to have experts in sole chargeof the three important departments—Operating, Maintenance of Way and Me- chanical—and that they shuld be handledas separate entities. The Departmental idea is carried agreat deal higher up on some roadsthan on others. In some cases the Gen-eral Superintendent besides being incharge of operation controls all mainte-nance and mechanical work on his Dis-trict, the officers of these departments re-por
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . heory is that inthis day of specialization the right prin-ciple is to have experts in sole chargeof the three important departments—Operating, Maintenance of Way and Me- chanical—and that they shuld be handledas separate entities. The Departmental idea is carried agreat deal higher up on some roadsthan on others. In some cases the Gen-eral Superintendent besides being incharge of operation controls all mainte-nance and mechanical work on his Dis-trict, the officers of these departments re-porting direct to him. In other cases thedepartments are kept entirely separate nical departments is fully appreciated, butthis is quite possible under a system thatwill co-relate under the Divisional Super-intendent all the forces of the Operating,Maintenance of Way and Mechanical de-partments so as to make them comple-mentary to one another. Instead of designating the departmental officers as Assistants some would pre- use the old familiar titles, such as Superintendent Transportation, District. L Dcspatcirs/ \« I I f„TOr I I Fortnw RAILWAY OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE UNDER A DIVISIONAL ORGANIZATION on Districts, as well as on Divisions, andthe Departmental officers report direct tothe General Manager. Again on otherroads a great gulf is fixed between theworking forces in the different depart-ments, the General Manager having nocontrol of maintenance of way and me-chanical matters. Instead the Depart-mental officers have supreme authorityover their respective departments and re-port direct to the Vice-President incharge of operation and maintenance. The absolute necessity of having highlytrained experts supervise these two tech- Master Mechanic, Division Engineer,Trainmaster, Chief Despatcher, etc., butthis is not material. The Assistant General Manager (Main-tenance of Way) prescribes standards inconnection with track, bridges and build-ings ; allocates new rails supplied
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