Book Description

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...reports. On the Baltimore & Ohio, Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton, Cleveland Cincinnati Chicago & St. Louis, Delaware & Hudson New York Central and the Pennsylvania Railroads a complete report is required daily, both of the total number of hours worked and of the distribution. When these reports are made out each night the foreman's responsibility ceases, the remainder of the clerical work being done in the office of the supervisor or roadmaster, the division engineer or superintendent. PRESENT PRACTICE. Monthly Reports--The Canadian Pacific is typical of the roads which require monthly reports on both the time of laborers and distribution of work. The roadmaster is expected to keep in touch with the work, so that he can check up fairly well both distribution and time, as sent in by the foreman, and the officials consider that this system does away with unnecessary daily or weekly reports. A tie report, rail fastenings report, rail report, tool report and material report, are required once a month. These blanks are made as simple as possible, but very much in detail, so that there is no possibility of the track foreman omitting anything. The men are educated in filling out these forms, so that no mistakes need be made. The foreman is required to carry his time-roll book with him constantly, and to be ready to submit it for inspection to the roadmaster at any time. The time book is made up with an enclosed carbon sheet, and second sheet, on which a copy is made of the foreman's entries. The foreman cannot get at the duplicate to alter it without tearing the two sheets apart at the bottom and the top. This makes it easy to detect any corrections made. When these are necessary the foreman makes them on the original and either explains them in...