. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . following amounts: . ir CostCost of Fuel Per Ton Cost of fuel $415,906,944 $3,132* Maintenance of fuel handling 4,508,787 .034 Freight car repairs, deprn and retirements 7,101,580 .053 Locomotive repairs, deprn and retirements 11,054,122 .083 Enginehouse expense 2,275,000 .017 Firing locomotives in service 125,534,000 .945 56 ,435 Other operating expenses 8,041,811 .060 574,422,445 handling cost at Fuel Stations of per ton. This has resulted in
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . following amounts: . ir CostCost of Fuel Per Ton Cost of fuel $415,906,944 $3,132* Maintenance of fuel handling 4,508,787 .034 Freight car repairs, deprn and retirements 7,101,580 .053 Locomotive repairs, deprn and retirements 11,054,122 .083 Enginehouse expense 2,275,000 .017 Firing locomotives in service 125,534,000 .945 56 ,435 Other operating expenses 8,041,811 .060 574,422,445 handling cost at Fuel Stations of per ton. This has resulted in adding per cent to the originalunit charge-cut price of fuel and it is important to observethat this addition does not fluctuate with price ranges infuel but is a definite charge on a tonnage basis and thepercentages shown will of course vary with the price unitfor fuel but will not change much in sum total. There has been improvement in the past few years inthe fuel performance of locomotives and at the same timethere has been a tendency to use fuel of lower quality. a b ^^^r^s^g-^^ss^sis;^. ^—-Pounas Of f-uelPer/OOO Gross Ton-Afi/esSco/e A Average Weight OfLocomof/ve andTender in PoundsSco/e B(in 10000) Mi/esper Day perAct ire LocomotiveSca/e A Gross Ton Miles/ per Train Mi/esSco/e B (in/OOO) , Tor/sper TrainSco/e Bfi/7/00) „ -Speed in Mi/es perHour- Sca/e B The thermal value of fuel, that is coal and oil. usedthroughout the country, varies from to 18,000 a range of 125 per cent from the minimum to the maxi-mum. There is no specific data at hand to show the aver-age thermal value of fuel used by individual Class I car-riers. If the base price of fuel were to fluctuate in directproportion with the thermal value, then the cost of fuelwould be the same if the relative utilization of thermalunits were the same, but the performance in pounds offuel per thousand gross ton miles would be affected ac-cordingly, to some degree. Whether a high or low quality Ma
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