Report of the Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Convention of the American Railway: Master Mechanics' Association Held at Cape May, N. J., June 16, 17 and 18, 1891 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Sinclair, Angus

9781332331895: Report of the Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Convention of the American Railway: Master Mechanics' Association Held at Cape May, N. J., June 16, 17 and 18, 1891 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Report of the Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Convention of the American Railway: Master Mechanics' Association Held at Cape May, N. J., June 16, 17 and 18, 1891

There are two ways in which motive power officers can decrease the cost of transportation. These are, the making of locomotives more economical in the use of fuel, and the redue ing of the wages account by making them pull heavier trains.

Fuel is the most expensive item in motive power accounts, and it naturally receives the greatest attention. The efforts to reduce the consumption of fuel have led to decided improve ments in the proportions of locomotives. In the past, When little attention was bestowed upon the economical use of fuel, the tendency was to make the cylinders too large for the boiler, With the result that the boiler was intensely forced to generate steam used by the cylinders. This defect is being rapidly corrected. Larger boilers are being applied to over cylindered locomotives, and a striking feature about all new locomotives is the liberal size of boilers. The economy that results from the improved proportions is materially reducing the cost of moving trains, and still there is no disposition manifested by the members to rest and be satisfied that nothing better can be done.

The efforts to still improve the motive power are increasing. This progressive sentiment has been manifested during the past year in the introduction by several railroad companies of com pound locomotives, and the results are highly encouraging. The activity of our members in striving to improve the machin ery under their charge may be judged by the work of investiga tion undertaken during the past year.

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Excerpt from Report of the Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Convention of the American Railway: Master Mechanics' Association Held at Cape May, N. J., June 16, 17 and 18, 1891

The interests that you represent enter into the lives of the people more, I might almost say, than the Government itself. But certainly, next to the Government, the interests that you gentlemen are allied with enter into the lives and the welfare of the people. I have read with a great deal of pleasure the objects of your Association, as set forth in Article II of your Constitution. It strikes me that if that article could be set before the people of the United States it would remove many of the prejudices and much of the feeling that is expressed by unthinking men against the great railroad interests of this country. I would like to read that article, because it has struck me with peculiar force: "The objects of this Association shall be the advancement of knowledge concerning the principles, construction, repair and service of the rolling stock of railroads by discussions in common, exchange of information, and investigations and reports of the experiences of its members, and to provide an organization through which the members may agree upon such joint action as may be required to give the greatest efficiency to the equipments of railroads which is entrusted to their care."

It strikes me that in a government like ours, a government by the people and of the people, any one will see who reads carefully the reports of the discussions and proceedings of the previous Convention, that that is not an empty phrase - that your discussions enter into the practical every-day appliances that are used; and it seems to me that if there is anything that is for the interest of the people, for the welfare of the public, that you have brought experience, and greater experience than any other body of men could bring, to solve the questions that are now pressing upon us.

I see also that all of your committees are organized with reference to this work, and investigations are undertaken upon the appliances necessary to protect life.

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