Locomotive engineers

Dekker, D., Paley, M. Popken, S. and Tepas, D., Locomotive engineers and their spouses Coffee consumption, mood and sleep disorders. Ergonomics 36(1-3), 233 238, 1993. 

Thomas GR, Raslear TG, Kuehn GI. The Effects of Work Schedule on Train Handling Performance and Sleep of Locomotive Engineers A Simulator Study. Washington, DC Federal Railroad Administration., 1997. 

Several projects are now running in the field of traction applications. For example, tram supply without catenary (overhead lines), voltage drop compensation for weak distribution network, or big diesel locomotive engine cranking. 

The first US Patent was issued to inventor John Ruggles on July 13, 1836 for improved Traction Wheels for locomotive-engines. The Traction Wheels addressed the need for locomotives to efficiently climb inclined plains and hills with heavy loads drawn up to the same with more facility and economy than heretofore. US Patent 130 was the first chemical invention patent issued on February 16, 1837 to English chemist Webster Flockton. Flockton had developed a method of preserving wood by treating lumber with the essential oil of vegetable tar saturated with the oxide of iron. ... 

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Fuller, H. R. 1906. Representing the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, Order of Railway Conductors, and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Before the House Judiciary Committee, US Congress, February 28. 

In the light of enzymatic structures and reactions, when model compounds are explored then one should generally define and address the required qualification for a synthetic compound in order to be called a structural and/or functional model. A pedagogical representation of the different model compounds may be given using the example of a steam locomotive engine. 

Figure 3.2 Illustrating the different model characters using the example of a locomotive engine.

Simultaneously with Davy, George Stephenson, afterwards the famous locomotive engineer but then an obscure man, began to experiment, and devised a lamp in which a candle or oil lamp was enclosed in a lantern, and air admitted below through holes in a metal plate which could be partly closed by moveable discs. Stephenson says his first lamp was tried on 21 October 1815, when it was carried with safety (apparently it went out) a modified lamp was tried on 4 November and burnt better, a third on 24 November. He does not explain the principle, but the Report (iSiy) says he concluded in August, first, that the gas, produced by combustion in a Lamp, would prevent the communication of any explosion through the chimney of the Lamp upwards and secondly, that if the Lamp was supplied with air from a tube below, that tube would prevent the communication of any explosion downwards. He calls firedamp hydrogen gas . 

The railways industry was heavily unionized. There were three main unions at the time of data collection, namely the National Union of Railwaymen (NUR), the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF), and the Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA). Some workers in the railway workshops were members of the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU). The decline in the power of the unions is perhaps indicated by the amalgamation of the NUR with other transport unions in 1990, to create the Railways, Maritime and Transport Workers Union. The other significant trend was of course the beginning of the privatization process. 

ASLEF Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen... 

Passengers on trains are, in a sense, riding voluntarily, but they are certainly not in control of the situation. People are less willing to accept risk when they put their lives in the hands of an airline pilot or locomotive engineer than when they are behind the wheel of their own automobile. Jones-Lee and Loomes (1995) found that subway travelers in London place a risk premium of fifty percent on subway travel compared with automobile travel. 

Operating Practices Workplace safety (49 CFR 214) Operating rules required (49 CFR 217) Operating practices (49 CFR 218) Radio procedures (49 CFR 220) Hours of service (49 CFR 228) Certification of locomotive engineers (49 CFR 240)... 

These regulations primarily specify hiring standards for locomotive engineers, hours of service of operating employees, and to a more limited extent specify how they perform their duties. The hours-of-service rules are longstanding, but regulations in the other areas are more recent. 

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