. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . opiesof the practices and standards of the roads of the countryand. then, by a process of assimilation and eliminationbuild up a code that represented the best practice, and thisin consultation with the departmental heads of the rail-,roads. Later and for several months prior to the assumption ofFederal control, he had charge of special investigationsconcerning the condition and maintenance of railroadequipment, acting under the direction of the InterstateConmierce Commission. At the beginnin
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. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . opiesof the practices and standards of the roads of the countryand. then, by a process of assimilation and eliminationbuild up a code that represented the best practice, and thisin consultation with the departmental heads of the rail-, roads. Later and for several months prior to the assumption ofFederal control, he had charge of special investigationsconcerning the condition and maintenance of railroadequipment, acting under the direction of the InterstateConmierce Commission. At the beginning of Federal control he was, on the re-quest i>f the director general, assigned by the commissionto take charge of equipment matters for the railroad ad-ministration, and on July 1. 1918, he was directed by thedirector general to resign his position as chief inspectorand to devote all of his time to the work of the railroadadministration in the capacity of assistant director of op-eration in charge of mechanical matters. In this capacityhe was actively en.gaged in the preparation of the designs. Frank McManamy 194 Time. 1923 ILILVAY AXD LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 195 for standard locomotives and freight cars, a work thatwas done by a committee of representative superintend-ents of motive power together with exj^erts chosen fromthe builders of locomotives and cars. The results of the work of this committee are now apart of the mechanical history of the country, and the ad-ministration locomotives, as they are called, that weredesigned by it. are generally regarded as exceptionallywell designed for the purposes for which they were in-tended. Later he was chairman of this committee on standardsfor locomotives and cars which passed ujx)n matters per-taining to their construction and to the appurtenances thatshould be used. On the assumption of Federal control, one of the prin-cipal problems confronting the administration was that ofimproving the condition of locomotives and cars.