Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1918 — MECHANICS SCARCE IN TEXAS [ARTICLE]

MECHANICS SCARCE IN TEXAS

Two Big Railroads Meet With Diffi. culty in Changing Fuel Equip- . ment of Locomotives. According to advices received by the Texas state railroad commission, there is such a great shortage of expert mechanics that the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe railroads are meeting with much delay in changing the fuel equipment of their locomotives from oil burners to coal burners.