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Title: The Traveling Engineers' Association
To Improve The Locomotive Engine Service of American Railroads

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: February 17, 2006 [EBook #17783]

Language: English

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THE
TRAVELING ENGINEERS'
ASSOCIATION

To Improve The Locomotive
Engine Service
of American Railroads

EXAMINATION QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

For Firemen for Promotion
and New Men for Employment :-:

Copyrighted by W. O. Thompson, March, 1911
Revised January, 1919

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=PREFACE=

It is the policy of railroads to employ firemen who will in time become
competent locomotive engineers. This requires that a man should have at
least a common school education, good habits and be in good physical
condition. He should be alert, with good reasoning faculties and a man
of sound judgment. Having these qualifications, advancement will come to
those who are conscientious in discharging their duties and who devote
some of their leisure hours to study.

As an aid to this end, and that the railroad companies may derive the
highest efficiency from the man employed as a locomotive engineman, a
code of questions is given him, and it is expected that the preparation
necessary to correctly answer the questions will indicate how well he
has progressed.

The list of questions is also intended as a guide to the matters on
which he should be correctly informed, both during his term of service
as a fireman and for future promotion to engineer.

When a man is first employed as a fireman he will be given a list of
questions on which he will be examined at the end of the first year;
having passed this examination successfully he will then be given the
examination questions for the following year; having passed this
examination satisfactorily, he will be given a third and final set of
examination questions on which he will be examined before being pro