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Cost of Running a Locomotive

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 17, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 23.

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Cost of Running a Locomotive

It costs, on an average, a little more than twenty cents a mile to run a locomotive. Nearly eight cents of this is for fuel, seven and a quarter cents for pay of engineer and fireman, a half cent for oil and waste, and more than four and a half cents for repairs. A ton of coal will run a locomotive twenty-four miles; a pint of oil will run eleven miles, and a pound of waste, one hundred and twenty-three miles.