Railway Locomotives and Cars, Volume 100Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation, 1926 - Railroad engineering |
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Page 137 - Engineers, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.
Page 292 - Wet Grinding Wheels Wheels used in wet grinding should not be allowed to stand partly immersed in the water. The water-soaked portion may throw the wheel dangerously out of balance. All wet tool grinders...
Page 136 - The board shall report its findings to the President with respect to the disputes within thirty days from the date of this order. As provided by section 10 of the Railway Labor Act, as amended, from this date and for thirty days after the board has made its report to the President, no change, except by agreement, shall be made by the...
Page 168 - Conference Committees and certain of their employees represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, the Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen, the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, and the Switchmen's Union of North America.
Page 135 - A board of mediation is created, to consist of five members appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, with the duty to intervene at the request of either party or on its own motion, in any unsettled labor dispute...
Page 509 - Flues all new or reset (superheater flues may be excepted). Necessary repairs to firebox and boiler. Tires turned or new. General repairs to machinery and tender.
Page 525 - Proceedings of the American Railway Master Mechanics' Association and the Master Car Builders
Page 292 - Side Grinding:. Grinding on the flat sides of straight wheels is often hazardous and should not be allowed on such operations when the sides of the wheel are appreciably worn thereby or when any considerable or sudden pressure is brought to bear against the sides.
Page 135 - Nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit an individual carrier and its employees from agreeing upon the settlement of disputes through such machinery of contract and adjustment as they may mutually establish.
Page 251 - Iron can be welded or melted without contamination by carbon, oxygen or nitrogen. Because of the powerful reducing action of the atomic hydrogen, alloys containing chromium, aluminum, silicon or manganese can be welded without fluxes without surface oxidation.