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Title: Official proceedings
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Railway Club of Pittsburgh
Subjects: Railway Club of Pittsburgh Railroads
Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pa. : The Club

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e proportionate accomplishment of sucheconomies. Oil electric locomotives will require much less roundhouseand shop capacity. It is apparent that as great as the directsaving in fuel would be the indirect savings by the substitutionof such motive power, particularly the saving in future invest-ments of this nature would mount up to a large figure. There seem to be reasons enough to look for somethingbetter than steam—what are the chances of finding it? Furtheroperating economies must be in the more intensive use ofexisting equipment rather than the purchase of more units.More ton miles per locomotive per day is and will continue theobjective. The two principal ways to accomplish this are to 160 make faster time between terminals and, more important still,shorter and fewer delays in terminals. I am sure all railroad men will agree that much promptermovement is possible when motive power can he kept movingin a steady stream instead of in surges as at present undermost steam operation.
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60-ton Oil Electric Locomotive owned and operated by the ReadingR. R. at Philadelphia. Locomotive is moving cars up an incline thatraises thirty feet in a distance less than one city block. One of the inherent drawbacks to steam locomotive oper-ation has been the impossibility of prophesying- 12 or 24 hours inadvance what will be the average turning time of steam loco-motives, whereas it could be very closely anticipated with in-ternal combustion operation, thus minimizing congestion inthrough terminals and particularly at junction points. With this situation in mind the only question would seemto be the possibility of developing the new type locomotive.Assuming mechanical practicability the principal argumentagainst internal combustion locomotives is generally the ques-tion of first cost. Many of us can remember when we were young in theGay Nineties that a good horse and buggy could be boughtfor considerably less than $1,000. There was then about onehorse and buggy to every 1,00(1 pe

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