Letters From An Old Railway Official Second Series His Son a General Manage
Letters From An Old Railway Official Second Series His Son a General Manage
Charles De Lano Hine
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Some roads make such engineers line officers by giving them extensive authority over work- ing forces. Usually I believe this is a mis- take. It seems better for these engineers to be real staff officers, thinking, inspecting, warn- ing, instructing (in the sense of lecturing), improving, designing and perhaps sometimes installing, but never directly operating or main- taining. The same general reasoning applies to the mechanical bureau when the business of the chief mechanical officer attains ...a volume necessitating the help of such valuable staff of- ficers as a mechanical engineer, an electrical engineer, a testing engineer, etc. When the telegraph came to supplement the railway, men stood in awe of its invisible ef- 105 LETTERS FROM A RAILWAY OFFICIAL. fects. Soon the telegraph man said in effect, "This is a wonderful and mysterious specialty which you fellows cannot understand. Let me, the expert, handle it for you. " So he seg- regated unto himself a so-called department on the plea that it is so different.
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