. Official proceedings . tly requested. In fact, 1 am inclined to believe that in time the stokerwill be preferred, as by the use of the stoker the periodelapsing from employment to promotion to engineman willnot be increased which would be the case were a secondfireman employed on all locomotives. ^c ifc ^c ^c ^z I have already stated that mechanical firing permits theworking locomotives more nearly to maximum capacity thanwhen fired by hand. Therefore, some examples of resultsobtained are presented to you. As the following data has already been published. I feel 20 sure my friends of the San
. Official proceedings . tly requested. In fact, 1 am inclined to believe that in time the stokerwill be preferred, as by the use of the stoker the periodelapsing from employment to promotion to engineman willnot be increased which would be the case were a secondfireman employed on all locomotives. ^c ifc ^c ^c ^z I have already stated that mechanical firing permits theworking locomotives more nearly to maximum capacity thanwhen fired by hand. Therefore, some examples of resultsobtained are presented to you. As the following data has already been published. I feel 20 sure my friends of the Santa Fe will not object to my givingyou the benefit of their work. The tests were made with their dynamometer ear andthe locomotive and train ready for test is shown. The loco-motive is a Mikado, having approximately 60,000 poundstractive force. Numerous test trips were run to determineother factors as well as a comparison of hand and mechanicalfiring, but those shown in the following tabulation were forthe latter •SANTA FE TEST TRAIN. LOCOMOTIVE: CO WES-TZQU/VB TONNAGE TESTS To, LCXPRCaj J9Cf* T£ST TONNRGC / / / RUNNING time COAL USES Ems. JOOOTOH £Vr\mLE coALro CORL PER noun. UML PERsq FT GRPER HOUR RVCJIEAmPRESS. URfW ORSTOKE 7 1579 65 63 2 6*-« = \ <Z4Z S2Z4 7BZ 13*3 H 3 Z7I3 69 60 9 J 46m 558 2966 II9S 6121 913 1788 5 II 2849 7/ 67 4 6*34^ ■ -=?6600 4 7S 3/14 1497 7096 5 13 2835 74 38 ie S^40- 3&083 im~5 6721 lOOG S 15 Z848 75 73 2 5*J8* » 5b27m 32 BOO S62 3 5927 887 S T< INNAGE TESTS. All of these trips were Westbound the d
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