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Railway Organization and Working By Ernest Dewsnup Hard cover 1906 Lectures
Railway Organization and Working By Ernest Dewsnup Hard cover 1906 A series of lectures delivered before the Railway Classes of The University of Chicago 498 Pages EX-library book
PREFACE
This volume is a compilation of special lectures delivered before the University classes in railway transportation during the period extending from November, 1904, to May, 1906. It may be said in explanation that the University of Chicago, during the past two years, has undertaken, in association with a number of railways, the training of railway employees with the object of increasing their professional efficiency. To this end, courses have been conducted in a number of subjects bearing upon the traffic, auditing, operating, and other sides of the American railway. One feature of these courses has been the practical co-operation of railway officials in the form of special lectures. A large number of applications having been received for printed copies of these lectures, as many of them as practicable have been collected into the present volume. It is the regret of the editor that he failed to secure others equally as interesting and as instructive as those contained in the subsequent pages. The volume, being but a compilation of scattered lectures, lays no claim to a balanced treatment of the whole subject of railway transportation. There are several obvious omissions which were unavoidable under the conditions surrounding the preparation of the volume. Nevertheless, to those acquainted with the literature of railway transportation it will not need emphasizing that the book really occupies a unique place. The numerous aspects of the railway service which it treats, the plain and non-technical way in which every subject is handled, the fact that more than a score of railway experts of the highest reputation have collaborated in its production, all combine to make the volume indispensable to the ambitious young "railroader" who desires to make sure his rise in the service by establishing it upon as broad a foundation of knowledge as possible. The lack of a concise treatment of the varied aspects of railway operation has been felt for a long time by railway men and the interested public.
It is also to be hoped that the book, and others of its kind that may follow, will have a stimulating effect upon the teaching of railway economics in our universities. The study of this volume ought certainly to give the student of railway economics a more vivid appreciation of the organization he studies.
But in arranging for the original lectures and in preparing them for this volume, the editor has had keenly in mind the influence it may exert upon the rank and file of railway employees, the men from whom our railway lieutenants, captains, colonels, and generals of tomorrow must come. The more efficient training these men can receive, the greater good will they be able to confer upon the community with whose interests their business is indissolubly connected. One may almost dare to affirm that, in the solution of the so-called railway problem, education is likely to play a more beneficial part than much of the legislation that attracts public attention.
The educational movements at Montreal, Chicago, and elsewhere are significant. The railways are feeling the difficulty of finding men equal to the responsibilities of the present complex organization. They are beginning to realize the necessity of drawing into their service many of those bright minds that find their way.
Consequently, we find the railways increasingly anxious to learn what the colleges and universities of the land can do for them in this regard. Though hardly understood by all at present, to the writer it goes without saying that it is just as necessary and just as beneficial for the railway officer to be trained scientifically for his work as for the civil engineer for his occupation, the doctor for the practice of medicine, and the lawyer for the pursuit of law.
In the preparation of this volume, I am indebted first and foremost to the writers of the papers, and also to numerous others who have given me assistance. I am indebted to Mr. E. H. Fritch, Assistant Secretary of the Amercan Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association, for the use of some of the diagrams appearing in the volume.
The index has been prepared by Mr. C. W. Schroeder and Mr. A. G. Caldwell, Fellows in Railway Transportation, of the University, and I am tinder obligation to them for the assistance given in this and other ways.
In an appendix I have included some papers written by students of the classes, which will be found instructive and will serve the purpose of indicating the practical nature of the educational experiment now being made by the University of Chicago.
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