Author points out that higher road speeds, new types of motive power and rolling stock, closer limits of accuracy conspire to make existing railroad shop equipment inadequate; according to American Machinist Inventory of Equipment Metal Working Plants published in 1935, railroad repair shops were among worst offenders in keeping obsolete tools in use.
Why railroad shops must modernize
Am Mach
American Machinist ; 81 , n 5
1937
2 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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