The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-01
NEw RAVENS GREAT SHOPS.
Those at Readv1I1e Among the Largest
 in the Country.

in the Country.
 have a base Of supplies and the rail- roads base of supplies Is its shops and general store house, from which it is ;conszan$ay being repaenisa1ed as the parts Of it's wonderful organization wears out
 Fhe size and. character of a railroads general shops mean much for ss com .rnIrnity not alone through their con 4rfbutson to the railroads upkeep and efficiency, reflected in the service fur '1lfshed the public but also because these shops are in themselves a great Df labor in the community and dtstrib- zzfinz many hundreds of thousands of dollars aunuaIfy in the form of wages.
 It once was the practice to scatter a vEadlroadss shops in small units over 1ts eyseem, but in recent years the ten-' ldency on the larger systems has been towards concentration in this as well ms other phases of It's operation, for in lcoucentratton lies the secret of real efficiency. The New Haven decided upon such a policy nearly ten years ago and this has now resulted in the shops at Rockville, Mass, where all the general repairing of the system is .rzone and from whence the system draws most of it's supplies
 The Rockville shops, constructed since 1904 now rank easily among the largest ra1lroad repair shops in this country and are probably exceeded only by the Pennsylvan4a system 8 great shops at Altoona, Pa, and the ierea1 In it's locomotive shop, whose iconstruct1on was begun in 1907, the New Haven has new perhaps the most Anodexn shop of it's kind in this coun- try, involving all Of the principles of ecaentthc management and elimination Of waste
 The shops at ReadvdTle all told cover about 175 acres They employ between e.500 and 26Oo men, nearly all of them ekiIled labor. There Is distributed in wages on an average every week at hhis great scene of industry aboaut $37,- 900, which would mean almost s2,O00, 900 5n a year flowing back in this way to Mhs people from whom the railroad priEinaly collected it The efnect of dhe location of this industry at Read NfIIe has been felt easily within safus of z5 miles. It has increased the population of one town alone, Hyde Park, by more than a thousand. Read eVf1Ia being only about fifteen miles From Boston, many of the workmen Rive in that city
 About forty-fve locomotives a month are now repaired in these shops Throug the ear shops there passes ev- cry month to be renewed on an aver Pge 1z5 passenger cars and 500 freight bars
 Tn the operation of a railroad like Rhe New York, New Haven and Hart kord the locomotives naturally receive Hhe most wear, consequently it is nee kesary to send them through the shops about once every five months This pecessitates Q very large plant. The Locomotive shop, to which a boiler re- pair shop has just been added. is now h.250 feet long and 15O feet wide and bernpIoys $50 men In the up to date Fhop like this the locomotive IS brought to the work, not the work to khe locomotive A locomotive starts fn st one end of the shop and comes but the other First it Is stripped, lift Id from It's great drivers by electric eranes like a chiId's tin toy Enor- bnous 1athes take the wheels and true khen up. while the locomotive pursues BtB way, losing other of it's parts and ac1uzrfnE them again Even the cabs hre lifted off, painted. repaired and put back Men work in the boiler and nre-box like so many nlolesN at one ntage Of the locomotives Journey. Ev- ary few days the locomotive is pushed imhead on the track upon which she makes the journey through the shop knnt1l finally she stands at the other ;end, waiting for the final test, g1isten- isng in new paint, all ready for the Eosad again.
 [ whne the locomotive has been mal- Eng this Journey all over the building ssnen have been doing work the Thousand and one different jobs which stlzis has required. The construction of imlf this energy of man and machine, h@1ne coordination of all this tremen- HHous amount of effort is today the tri- lezu5ph Of scientific shop management ssrs represented Tn the great locomotive smfloD mt ReadvfI1e- It is in this loco ssuotzve shop that the New Haven is knbotr< to undertake the task of equip all of &rftf1 the superheating device at a. cost bf about g, ,000.000. adding thereby 20 her cent to their hauling capacity and RRectinE at the same time a saving of R0 per cent in fuel and 25 per cent in kater consumption
 The car repafrs shops cover 9 much MEwax mraR than doss the loconotivel