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MARCH, 1929 No INE CENTRAL ilattwag lExprras Agettrg LOYEES' MAGAZINE (SnrnriioralPii1 VOL. VI MARCH, 1929 No. 3 B5 tBrnaiuiag fioliprt t. fH. (£ouiif yiTfliiu-nt Nations Leading Railroads Take Over February 20, 1929. the Country's Express Business Dear Mr. McDonald: The transfer of railway express operations to Railway Express Agency, N March 1st, the American Rail• Robert E. M. Cowie, formerly presi• Incorporated, on March 1, 1929, is an important event in transportation O way Express Company ceased to dent of the American Railway Express history. While it is true that arrangements have been made under which be a vital factor in our transportation Co., has become president and direc• the new Express Agency takes over the experienced organization of the American Railway Express and that this organization will exert itself to the system and was succeeded by the Rail• tor of the new Express Agency. The utmost to function efficiently, may I suggest that it would be very encourag• way Express Agency, Inc. This new directorate includes 15 other promi• ing and helpful to the officials and employees of the new Express Agency, organization, which will handle prac• nent railroad men from all sections of and I believe also desirable in the interests of the railroads, if you would tically all the country's express busi• the country, with E. G. Buckland of send a special communication to your officers and employees pointing out ness, has been organized and is owned the New Haven representing New to them the fact that the express transportation business and its develop• ment on economic lines will hereafter be of even greater importance to the by 86 of America's Class I railroads, England. railroads than in the past as all of the net earnings of this joint facility will to whom the thousand shares of cap• Quickly Approved by I. C. C. accrue to the railroad companies. ital stock of the new company are These arrangements have been ap• issued in proportion to the gross ex• proved by the Interstate Commerce From time to time our officers will take up with officials of individual press business transacted by the re• Commission, which rendered its de• railroads, questions of promoting the best interests of the express service spective roads. Of this total, the cision as an emergency action in a and the railroads in their relationship to this business, and the active co• Maine Central takes five shares, thus operation of your officials and employees generally should be very helpful. remarkably short space of time after indicating that we do, roughly, one- the matter w'as presented to it. half of one per cent of the express It is our hope that ways may be found to further reduce operating costs The old American Railway Express as related to business handled, and also if possible find ways to minimize business of the United States. was an outside company in the sense the diversion of traffic from the railroads to outside trucking concerns. Same Rates and Tariffs that it was not owned or controlled The Railway Express Agency, Inc., Very cordially yours, by the railroads but had contracts has adopted the rates and tariffs of with them which expired on February (Signed) Robert E. M. Cowie the old company, has acquired all its 28th of this year. For some time a President. property and contracts, at least as far committee of the Association of Rail• Mr." Morris McDonald, President, as our territory is concerned, and has Maine Central Railroad Company, way Executives had been studying taken over its personnel. The pur• Portland, Maine this matter and finally decided that chase price for the properties was the best solution of the problem, for tentatively fixed at $30,313,000, this the benefit of the railroads and in the amount being subject to later adjust• public interest, was the acquisition of ments. The American Railway Ex• the entire express business of the February 27, 1929 press Company was itself a consolida• country by them, rather than a con• tion, worked out during Federal con• tinuation of the old system of opera• To Employees and Officers: trol by the Director General of Rail• tion by an outside company. roads, including such companies as the President Cowie's suggestions, as reproduced above, have my hearty Adams, American, Wells Fargo and Due to the impossibility of securing approval. all the outstanding stock of the Amer• (Sig ned) Morris McDonald, President Southern Express Companies. Maine Central Railroad Company ican Railway Express Company, and :3) for the purpose of bringing more the United States with the exception directly under the control of the rail• of the Southern Railway. The com• roads of the country the express busi• mon stock is not expected to produce ness of the Nation, the new Agency dividends. The earnings of the new has been set up as the best possible Agency will be distributed to the in• expedient. The capital stock of the terested railroads in proportion to the new Agency is a negligible part of the amount of business they transact. financing, which has been arranged The new arrangement is intended by the sale of 32 million dollars of five to obviate the criticisms of the Inter• per cent gold bonds, which are to be state Commerce Commission as to the disposed of at not less than 97J per old system and to make the railroads cent of par to J. P. Morgan & Co. and of American transporters of express Kuhn, Loeb & Company. as they are of freight. All of the per• Earnings Go to Interested Roads Eighty-six Class I Railroads have sonnel of the old company has been become the owners of the common taken over by the new, as well as the stock of the new Agency and include system of pensions which has long practically all the major systems of been in effect. Operating Diagram of Application to Engine Type "BK" Mechanical Stoker on a spindle. During the time that Elvin type and six of the Duplex. stokers for stationary boilers were These two types of stokers vary in Mechanical Stokers For Locomotives under development, the matter of de• operation, one of the mechanical veloping a stoker, not of the auto• shovel type and by means of two In Use On Our Engines matic type, but one of a mechanical mechanically-driven shovels that fire type, was a problem for stoker manu• first to the left side and then to the facturers to put on the market one By MALCOLM D. BILLINGTON, Supervisor of Locomotive Performance right side, just as is done in hand fir• that would fire a steam locomotive. ing, the other consisting of a helicoid ANY years before mechanical were in stationary plants. This dates The amount of steam used on a screw bringing coal to a proper height M locomotive boiler varies and presents and then forced into firebox by a jet stokers were thought of in con- back to 1819 and the so-called auto- a different problem, from maximum of steam. nection with firing locomotives, "Au- matic stoker was a traveling grate one minute to minimum the next min• Undergoing repairs at Waterville, tomatic Stokers," as they were called consisting of a circular grate revolving ute. This fluctuation on boiler varies Engine 604 is having installed a new so much that the stoking machine has type. The new B. K. Type is much to be watched very carefully and lighter in weight and does not take up operated so as to take care of this as much cab room as those mentioned constantly varying load. Therefore previously in this article. the stoker cannot be operated as an The method of handling coal from automatic, but must have a fireman tender to firebox is similar to the who is essential to its successful opera• Duplex except at the point of delivery tion. into firebox. Coal is forced ahead by There are now in service, on the means of a horizontal screw to dis• Maine Central, 20 mechanical stoker- charge box. This extends up through New Type '"BK" Stoker, Being Installed 011 Engine Wl fired locomotives, 14 of which are the the deck to the lower edge of door (4) ( ) opening which is altered to take firing which gives ample lubrication to en• table which extends into firebox. After gine. Lubricator feed, leading to coal is dropped on to table it is forced stoker engine cylinders, is adjusted to into firebox by a series of steam jets. two or three drops per minute. The engine to drive stoker is a The operation of this stoker is sim• horizontal, two-cylinder one, operated ilar to Duplex in regard to matter of at slow speed completely enclosed so spreading coal over firebox and correct that all working parts are protected adjustment of the distributing valve against dust. It runs in a bath of oil will give proper distribution of coal in and is lubricated by the splash system firebox at all times. Some Recent Improvements and Promotions In Personnel in Waterville Shops Foremen in Various Departments of the Waterville Shops Left to Right: R. H. Clark, J. M. Bart- Pollard, J. Trainor, F. P. Farwell, H. lett, E. C. Bickford, S. Antworth, T. N. Proudman, J. H. Bradburn, C. H. Gilson, Smith, S. A. Pugsley, E. E. Finnemore, C. T. Simpson, W. H. Bragg, M. F. Rhoades, H. Sessions, W. C. Lun't, J. O'Neil, E. J. H. Hall and M. M., F. H. Bennett. Advancements in the various offices in• Henry Vaughan, David Thompson, Wm. clude those of Eugene Pollard of Water• McCrae, Fred Little, veterans of many ville, formerly Foreman of Rigby Round years of efficient service, have recently been House, to the position of Erecting Foreman, pensioned.
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