. Official proceedings . came from the earningsof freight traffic and that % of the earnings fromproducts of mines, which from their nature may be hauledin heavy trains. Passengers contributed , and this,with mail and express added, made a total for passengertrain service of While large locomotives in passenger service haveexpedited the service and permitted hauling heavier trains,in view of the greater earnings obtained from freight service,the latter from the viewpoint of this offering may be re-garded as of the most importance. The next step is to ascertain where i
. Official proceedings . came from the earningsof freight traffic and that % of the earnings fromproducts of mines, which from their nature may be hauledin heavy trains. Passengers contributed , and this,with mail and express added, made a total for passengertrain service of While large locomotives in passenger service haveexpedited the service and permitted hauling heavier trains,in view of the greater earnings obtained from freight service,the latter from the viewpoint of this offering may be re-garded as of the most importance. The next step is to ascertain where it (The RailwayDollar) went to. The illustration shows this clearly, and itwill be noted that several of the items are quite independentof the weight of the train. That is. the expense does notincrease in proportion to the weight of the train, and there-fore the larger the train the lower the cost per ton mile,and low cost per tin mile is what the public is most inter-ested in. LOCOMOTIVE STOKER CO THE RAILWAY DOLLRR 1917. THE CIRCLE SHOWS 76 IS?o OPERATING EXPENSETHE BLACK BELT BEY0ND7O% ISTHE DRNGER ZONE THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE RAILWAY DOLLAR. Anion- the items which may be considered as decreasingin cost per ton mile in some proportion to the increase in Id tons per train arc fuel costs, (and I call particular attentionto the illustration that fuel is ) of the total expenses(crews wagfcs), equipment, track structure and signal main-tenance as well as certain other fixed and operating effect of the introduction of large locomotives on agiven division operated to their capacity (which the mechani-cal stoker makes possible) is shown hy the curve, in whichthe crews wages per ton mile is shown in comparison with
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