Identifier: electricrailway571921newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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now set down lists oftopics which committees are expected to consider, andthis is all right as far as it goes. But it does not go farenough. Either the men who get up the lists, or thecommittees themselves, should define the point of viewof the work. For example, take the heavy electric trac-tion situation. It is a conspicuous case because commit-tee work in this field is in the formative stage. Eightor nine national associations are active here. Their committees are duplicatingwork. They neither in-dividually nor collectivelyhave their purpose clearlydefined. They need a cen-tral steering committee, forwhich the name Amer-ican Committee on Elec-trification would be appro-priate. This would, helpthem in the work of def-inition and in the equi-table distribution of theiractivities. One of the first articlesin the constitutions ofmost organizations begins:The purpose of this asso-ciation is . . . . Thesame plan might well befollowed by committees in=*^fe«=^^==^=^^>* their work. =8*
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June 18, 1921 Electric Railway Journal 1115 Shop Notes from Buffalo Beclamation Shop Is Producing Attractive Savings—Dipping of Motor Shells a NewFeature—Ingenious Plan for Portable Mounting of Electric LocomotiveControl Apparatus Developed—Shop Layout Changes Here andThere Tend to Facilitate Maintenance Practice THE practicesfollowed in theCold Springshops of the Interna-tional Railway atBuffalo, N. Y., nowoperated by the Mit-ten Management, Inc.,have been mentionedand illustrated in theElectric RailwayJouiBNAL from timeto time. Recent ar-ticles have covereddipping and bakingof armatures and fieldcoils (Feb- 21, 1920,page 286) and com-pressor maintenance(March 3, 1920, page608). Altliough theseshops have been inuse for many yearsthey are well adaptedto modern mainte-nance practices and they are being constantly modified to meet changingconditions. The present article embodies the observa-tions (of a member of the editorial staff of this paperwho visited the shops recently- The

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