. Railway master mechanic . fthe tests made by the C. B. & Q. as to the amount ofhard coal required to heat a car tor a day of 24hours with stoves. This was found to be 20(i lbs. ofanthracite. At Colorado Springs hard coal costs,we assume, $40S per ton, or 408 cents for 200 lbs. forone car one day, as against 312 cents per car perday when heated by steam. This small saving is at-tributable to the fact that your hard coal is minedin the vicinity of Colorado .Springs, and is remark-ably cheap, while the soft coal, being mined in theeast, is much higher relatively in price. But at Kansas City the
. Railway master mechanic . fthe tests made by the C. B. & Q. as to the amount ofhard coal required to heat a car tor a day of 24hours with stoves. This was found to be 20(i lbs. ofanthracite. At Colorado Springs hard coal costs,we assume, $40S per ton, or 408 cents for 200 lbs. forone car one day, as against 312 cents per car perday when heated by steam. This small saving is at-tributable to the fact that your hard coal is minedin the vicinity of Colorado .Springs, and is remark-ably cheap, while the soft coal, being mined in theeast, is much higher relatively in price. But at Kansas City there is a saving of 31 centsper car per day, as hard coal at that point, costs, weassumed, *6-22 per ton, or 62-2 cents per 2(X) lbs., asagainst 31 2 cents for soft coal burned on the loco-motive at *200 per ton. In this relation it may bewell lo refer to a paper read before the WesternRailway Club during the month of March, lti«7,published in the R.\il\vav .Mechanic of THE RAILW^AY MASTER MECHANIC November, 1890. SIDE AND MAIN RODS OF THE STRONG LOCOMOTIVE DARWIN April, 1SS7. by Vquote as follows: The expense wbich some ofcaused the companies in los:amounted to S3U,UO0 or , \for loss of life; and the whole :accidents would no doubt be suroad with a complete system of Forsyth of the C. t the high prices c ecent accidents haveproperty alone hasIt paying the damageSt in any one of theseX to equip almost any - ngby■ - charged for i from1 give a few tigui tinuous heating is of economy of fuel. ♦ ♦ ♦ • ♦ There is verylittle data to show how much the stoves or heaters have endeavored to get a figure for the continuous sys-tem, and I have some ligures obtained by our ownexperi-ments last year with the different forms of hot water andrsts we made on our own road, and II based upon that data. *****I found as the result of extended teststhat the Searle,Baker and Westinghouse heaters used on an average lbs. of
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