. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . sides this exceedingly small consumption ofwater, which is of vital imjKirtance in certain regions ofthe earth, and the very considerable saving of fuel,is another factfir of extreme importance these days. The turbine locomotive, while it may show much econ-omy in operation, the initial cost is extremely high whencompared with the ordinary steam locomotive. Maintenance Costs of Rolling Equipment The most economical unit for the transportation ofgoods in the United States is the freight car. T
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . sides this exceedingly small consumption ofwater, which is of vital imjKirtance in certain regions ofthe earth, and the very considerable saving of fuel,is another factfir of extreme importance these days. The turbine locomotive, while it may show much econ-omy in operation, the initial cost is extremely high whencompared with the ordinary steam locomotive. Maintenance Costs of Rolling Equipment The most economical unit for the transportation ofgoods in the United States is the freight car. This ispartly the result of the inherent advantages of steamtransportation when compared with other forms and])artly a tribute to the competence of railroad manage-ment. In the maintenance of its cars and locomotives, therailroad jierforms one of its great unseen services formodern society. The Bureau of Railway Economics hasjust made an analysis of these ex]>enditures for the vear1925. This shows that in 1925 the railroads had to spend $155per freight car to keep it in running order; $1,352 per. passenger car; and $7,023 per locomotive. These ex-penditures seem small enough in themselves; the main-tenance of a freight car, for instance, costing hardly morethan a set of tires for a good automobile. Yet, multipliedby the ,000 freight cars on the Class I railroads ofthe country it means an expenditure of $372,141,252. Maintenance expenditures of $1,552 per passenger carmounted up to $83,812,056 for the 54,000 passenger traincars on Class I railroads. Maintenance expenditures of only $7,023 per locomo-tive amounted to $456,532,575 for the 65,000 locomotivesin service on the Class I railroads. When to this are added the expenditures on work loco-motives, motor cars, floating equipment and work cars,we get the grand total of $946,245,179. This total is exclusive of depreciation and retirementallowances on equipment and does not include any of theoverhead cost of manageiuent a
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