Railroad Freight Transportation

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D. Appleton, 1922 - 771 pages
 

Contents

xix
45
Yard Accessories
50
Engine House Layout with Gridiron Outbound Storage
51
210
52
The Look Ahead
62
PART II
65
Car Repair Shops Tracks and Floating Gangs
66
Freight Cars
67
Engine Rating for One Per Cent Grade Speed Eight
70
58
84
70
90
Barracks Engine House 72 Back Shop
92
Locomotives
100
Stokers
109
Future Possibilities
111
Service Power 77 Compound Locomotives
112
Articulated Locomotives
113
Wreck Train
114
Snow Plows
115
Track Inspection
116
Dynamometer Car 83 Special Cars 84 Speedometers
118
Narrow Gauge Railroad
119
Comparison of Steam and Electrical Working
120
Organization of the London and Southwestern Railway
138
Statistics
141
United States Navy Organization
144
SECTION PAGE 101 Master Mechanic
158
Yardmaster
159
Division Operator
160
Chief Dispatcher
161
Train Dispatcher
162
facing
162
Division Agent
163
Division Accountant
164
Supervision
166
Methods in Administration
169
PAGE
171
Intercompany Arrangements and Standard Practices
177
Extracorporate Relations
183
Official Equipment Register
185
Poors Manual of Railroads
188
Commercial and Financial Chronicle
192
Railway Review
195
Engineering NewsRecord
197
Railway and Locomotive Engineering
198
PART IV
201
Forms
203
Relationship of Auditor to Transportation
206
Accounting
210
Audits and Inventories
215
The Grand Audit and Valuation
218
67
221
Depreciation
222
Statistics of Railways in United States
223
Obsolescence and Retirement
226
Revenue Accounting
227
Freight Forwarded Book
229
Settlement Book
230
Cash Book
231
Station Balance Sheet
232
Accounting for Incidental Revenue
233
General Accounts and Miscellaneous Matters 241
241
Classification of Expense Accounts
244
Proportions of the Time that Cars are in Use by
261
76
268
The Stock of Cars in the Country and the Use Made
269
Comparative Summary of Freight Cars in Service
276
Car Shortages and Surpluses 19071918 inclusive
285
The Demands of the Traffic and the Provisions
286
84
290
90
293
Loading of L C L Freight by Months 1919 and 1920
294
288
305
Work of the Bureau of Explosives
317
Collection and Delivery
318
Private Cars
324
Average Miles per Car per Day Made by Private Freight
335
Embargoes
374
Car Pools
381
Clearing House
392
Increase Possible in Tons One Mile 19061919 Making
396
Code of M C B Rules
403
Hire of Equipment BalancesClass I Roads 19081919
413
Development of Steam Transport
419
Photographs of Messrs Watt Trevithick Fulton
420
Effectiveness of Electric Engine as Compared With Steam Engine
423
177
427
179
434
91
447
182
449
Fuel Consumption
456
PART III
458
Resistance of Freight Cars of Various Weights
460
Delaware and Hudson Adjusted Tonnage Ratings
466
Assistant Engines
469
Organization
476
Chart Showing Relationship of Productive and Non
477
Engine Failures
479
Road Work
486
Standard Time
493
Standard Code of Train Rules and Telegraph Orders
499
Block System and Interlocking Signals
511
Planes
518
General Rules Governing Employees Operating Depart
527
The Crew of the Train
530
Station Agent
533
212
544
217
551
Requirements and Education
563
Wages
574
Demand of 1891
581
92
586
Effect of the Award of May 14 1910
588
Engineers Arbitration Eastern Territory 1912
596
Employment Relations
617
The General Manager
618
Working Conditions
624
SECTION PAGE 252 Arbitrary Restrictions of Service Designed to Make
626
Seniority
630
Jobs
632
Classification of Work
633
Restrictive Rules Covering Miscellaneous Matters
634
Railroad Accidents
637
Levels of Human Intelligence
643
The Personnel
651
Employment
653
Continuity of Employment
656
Training and Instruction
660
Discipline
664
Suggestions for Uniform Discipline
667
MENSECOND SECTION
671
Railroad Provident Institutions
673
John Edgar Thomson Fund
682
Frank Thomson Scholarships
683
Labor Unions
684
Open Shop
697
Parasitic Labor
709
Strikes
710
The Strike of 1877
711
Strike on the Missouri Pacific Leased Lines 1886
713
Strike on the Philadelphia and Reading Railway 1887
714
Strike on the New York Central Hudson River Railroad 1890
716
Yard Strike at Buffalo N Y 1892
717
Strike of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers on the Toledo Ann Arbor North Michigan Railroad 1893
718
Strike on the Lehigh Valley Railroad 1893
719
Strike of the American Railway Union 1894
720
The Grammar of Industry
723
INDEX
737
General Superintendent
750
Superintendent Car Service 96 Superintendent of Personnel 97 Superintendent of Safety 98 Police Service
757
Trainmaster 131 142
759
147
763
155
765
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