. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . 4 THE BALTIMORPJ AND OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZINE New Equipment On July 19th the Baltimore & OhioRailroad placed contracts for equipmentwhich will cost approximately $2,500, orders call for 2,000 steel hopper carsand fifty cars for passenger service, andimmediate delivery is stipulated in thecontracts. The hopper cars will be equipped withlongitudinal doors and modern apparatusfor complete and quick unloading. Theywill be built by the American Car andFoundry Company, East St. Louis, 111.,the Pressed Steel Car Company, Pitts-burgh, and the Cambria Stee
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . 4 THE BALTIMORPJ AND OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZINE New Equipment On July 19th the Baltimore & OhioRailroad placed contracts for equipmentwhich will cost approximately $2,500, orders call for 2,000 steel hopper carsand fifty cars for passenger service, andimmediate delivery is stipulated in thecontracts. The hopper cars will be equipped withlongitudinal doors and modern apparatusfor complete and quick unloading. Theywill be built by the American Car andFoundry Company, East St. Louis, 111.,the Pressed Steel Car Company, Pitts-burgh, and the Cambria Steel Company,Johnstown, Pa. The order for passenger cars wasplaced with the Pullman Company,Chicago, and included thirty-five coaches,five combination passenger and baggagecars, two baggage and mail cars, fourbaggage cars, two cafe parlor cars and twocafe coaches. Conference **Beats Correspond-ence to a Frazzle Editor Employes Magazine, Baltimore, Sir: The accompanying small kodak photo-graph is of a group of our officials taken. at South Chicago, Thursday, July from left to right their names areas follows: R. Kazmarek, storekeeper; J. F. Kee-gan, superintendent; C. W. Burke, gen- eral foreman; W. F. Booth, general yard-master; J. J. Tatum, superintendentfreight car department; G. A. Schmoll,district superintendent motive power;H. A. Blair, district master car builder. The picture was taken by the writerand the occasion of the meeting was tomake a thorough canvas of the bad ordercar situation at South Chicago. During the mornings conference, thewhole subject was thoroughly gone overand very satisfactory arrangementsagreed upon for the dismantling of con-demned cars, the sending to contractshops of some of the cars requiring veryheavy repairs, the application of steelcenter sills to M-11 box cars and theprompt reduction in the number of otherbad order cars accumulated at theChicago Terminals. It is safe to say that through thismeeting, a more efficient and satis
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