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operated heartily with our inspectors, and have disciplined their 

 men severely for failure to maintain all locomotives in satisfactory 

 condition while on the road. 



The " Follow up " system has been the key-note of our success 

 in railroad inspection work. One examination a year is not 

 enough. A locomotive^ may be in perfect condition today, while 

 tomorrow's inspection may disclose a warped ash pan, a missing 

 slide, etc. Therefore, the inspectors have made frequent visits 

 to the roundhouses and shops and have kept a vigilant watch of 

 as many locomotives as possible. 



During the summer special attention is given to correcting 

 minor defects which can be repaired in the roundhouses. In the 

 winter, railroad traffic is lighter, and that is the time devoted to 

 sending locomotives through the " shops " for heavy repairs. 

 Then it is, that the inspectors are needed to supervise the work 

 of repairs in order to see that defects of design are corrected. 



The following table contains a summary of this year's inspec- 

 tion work accomplished by representatives of this Department : 



Inspection of Railroad Locomotives and Rights of Way by the 

 Conservation Department in 1913 



RAILROADS 



Number 

 of loco- 

 motives 



Locomo- 



Miles 



tives 



in 



inspected 



State 



1 



4 



65 



122 



4 



28 



3 



10 



67 



112 



2 



27 



78 



180 



125 



57 



2 



9 



3 



4 



2 



6 



4 



20 



52 



193 



2 



15 



6 



46 



426 



696 



316 



494 



12 



15 



3 



2 



800 



877 



7 



81 



4 



20 



3 



32 



5 



3 



2 



13 



2 



1 



3 



42 



1 



6 



1 



1 



2 



11 



44 



25 



Right of 



way 

 inspected 



Adirondack and St. Lawrence 



Boston and Maine 



Brooklyn Cooperage Co 



Bath and Hammondsport 



Buffalo and Susquehanna 



Buffalo, Attica and Arcade 



Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg 



Boston and Albany 



Carthage and Copenhagen 



Cranberry Lake 



Catskiil and Tannersville 



Catskill Mountain 



Central New England 



Dansville ana Mt. Morris 



Delaware and Northern . .' 



Delaware and Hudson 



Delaware, Lackawanna and Western 



Dunkirk, Allegany Valley and Pittsburg 



Emporium Lumber Co 



Erie 



Fonda, Johnstown and Gloversville 



Glenfield and Western 



Greenwich and Johnsonville 



Hinckley Construction Co 



Horseshoe Forestry Co 



International Paper Co 



Jamestown, Chautauqua and Lake Erie 



Keeseville, Ausable Chasm and Lake Champlain 



Keery Chemical Co 



Kanona and Prattsburg 



Lehigh and Hudson River 



1 



65 



4 



3 



77 



2 



277 



214 



2 



3 



2 



4 



64 



2 



6 



4.54 



706 



12 



3 



835 



7 



4 



3 



5 



2 



2 



5 



1 



1 



2 



46 



Per cent 

 100 

 100 

 100 

 100 

 100 

 100 



80 

 100 

 100 

 100 

 100 

 100 



60 

 100 

 100 

 100 



45 

 100 

 100 

 100 

 100 

 100 

 100 

 100 

 100 

 100 

 100 

 100 

 100 

 100 

 100 



