Better preparation of students for railway work: With special reference to the telegraph and telephone department

The more complicated communication systems, their use and importance on railroads, the extension of power transmission lines and electrification of railroads with the resultant effects upon the communication systems require that technical men, who preferably have been given special training that will qualify them to handle such problems, be employed in railroad telegraph and telephone departments. Many problems are in common with the large wire-using commercial companies but others are peculiar to communication systems on railroads.