Railway Locomotives and Cars Volume 89, No. 10 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...in your own yard, but in the other yard as well. Discussion.--The importance of eliminating the practice of carding cars in interchange for small defects was recognized. The greatest difficulty in accomplishing this is found at the large interchange points, where, owing to the number of roads involved, it is more difficult to establish uniformity of practice than at points where two roads interchange. At the larger points improvement must come through the efforts of the chief interchange inspector. At Cincinnati unnecessary carding has been greatly reduced and uniformity of carding secured by means of a school for inspectors conducted by the chief joint inspector. This school is held once a month, and all inspectors are required to attend by their foremen. An evening session is held for the day inspectors and a morning session for the night inspectors. SUGGESTED CHANGE OF ORGANIZATION W. B. Elliot (Wiggins Ferry Company) read a paper in which he advocated a reorganization of the association on broader lines. He suggested that the association be made a central organization to include all local car and inspection associations as subsidiaries. Many subjects of general interest are considered at the meetings of the local associations and some of these could profitably be taken up by the larger organization at its annual meeting. The proposed plan would make the larger association a clearing house for all car department matters of interest to foremen and inspectors, and a selection of questions for general consideration could be made from those brought up during the year in the local associations. DISCUSSION OF THE MASTER CAR BUILDERS ASSOCIATION RULES OF INTERCHANGE Rule 2.--The question arose as to the propriety of rejecting an overloaded car under paragraph c...