Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-07-22
BIG ENGINES WILL
NOT USE COAL
IN FUTURE
REPORT FROM TOPEKA
SAYS OIL WILL BE USED
Engineers On All Roads West
of Chicago Soon to Demand
Increase in Pay But Terms
Are Not Known,

Topeka, July 2f.-Thc long painful
task OF twisting your eyes up in q
knot, blowing your nose, CRYING and
calling for a wet towel-all for the
purpose of removing a cindcr will
soon be a thing OF the past. All Of
the big roads running through To-
peka have converted the big passen-
ger locomotives into oil burners
No more coal burning engines spit
ting hot cinders at ever exhaust.
AT this time the Santa Fe shops in
Topeka are converting into oil burn
er5 all Of the thirty engines on prs
senger runs which make tine between
Kansas city and Newton and Kansas
City ana Arkapsas City. The freight
engines on this run and on a number
Of other runs along the 5000 miles OF
SANTA Pc lines have been converted
into oil burning locomotives since the
first OF January.
ON The oklahoma division Of the
santg te there are now in service
fifty-fiyc engines with oil burners.
The tanks have been built and they
are making great records for the road
both IN The saving of fuel and in the
decree C IN engine failures. Roth the
freight and passenger engines on this
division VIII be using oil within a few
week.,
In Topeka il VIII be necessary to
erect q huge oil tank for the storing
of this oil These tanks on the east
ern division viii be placed in Topeka,
Kansas City, Emporia. Newton and
Arkansas city. The tanks win hold
about 200, 1000 gallons of oil,
The OIL tanks are not built for the
purpose Of keeping %a-supplN OF oil on
hand at an times, They are bull like
water tanks-for the purpose Of Civ
ing THE OIL a flow to the tank in the
tender of the engine The oil from
the tank cars IS pumped into the
storage tenks and the yard tanks are
supplied in this manner. 1t is fig
utcd that the tank cars which are
shipped direct from the oil fields Of
the south viii hold about 5000 gal
Ions of Of each.
The work of converting q coal
burning engine into an oil burner is
not u hard job-that Is. it doesn't
take long and is in 40 way an FIX
pensive task for the railroad COM
pany. The CRATES OF the locomotive
arc removed ana huge oil burners in
stalled IN their place. In the tenders
of the engines the tanks are built.
The engine tanks hold 5000 gallons
OF 81. This is considered enough to
cairy az engine 800 miles under or
binary circumstances.
There are many advantages to
crude oil for locomotive fuel Most
of the benefits are to the passengers
IN "a passenger train. OF course tho
railroad has found that there is an
immense economy in fuel in oil con-
sumption. There are no cindcrs and
no smokc to It. This makes passcn-
ger travel comfortable.
The advantages 10 the fircmen on
m engine arc also an argument in
fovor of the crude oil fuel All a
fireman has To do is To turn a little
"spigot' ana keep his eye on the
steam gauge
That oil as q fuel for locomotives
:" NtAhAilN ANAO sun iltif E'i'A3t ta'
is evidenced by the recent statistics
published By the Western Pacific
railroad 10 the erect that approx
matclY 10000 barrels Of crude oil
are used per month by the locomo-
lives of that road. which would make
100000 barrels used annually. The
amount is used entirely In Kew Mex
leo. Arizona and those lines in Cali
fornia south of Ashland.
1t is stated that the Southern Pa
cific engines have a boiler pressure
averaging 100 pounds. and the eff
cheney obtained gives an equivalent
OF 163 gallons of oil to 1000 pounds
of coal This means an enormous
saving IN fuel expenses.
The Rock Island and Union Pacific
also use oil in their engines through
Topeka.
Engineers Want More Pay.
Southern Pacific. santa Fe and
salt Lake railroad locomotive engi-l
neers also the engineers on the other
f6 roads west Of Chicago to the Pa
cific coast are soon. through their
brotherhood committee, TO present a
demand for an increase In wages.
The demand. Il is said. viii be pre-
scented before the end OF this month
10 the General Managers association
at Chicago. Some 5000 men on the
southern Pacific payrolls are inter-
ested in this wage increase movement.
all the nineteen Interested roads
there are said go be $1,000 e%nsinecrs.
al OF WHOM will want an increase.
Prominent railroad officials state
that they have no idea what the ma
tnre Of the demand viii De-. They
expect that the demands viii be adj
Several months Ego the firemen on
All of thee western roads demanded
more pay and through arbitration
under the Erdman act. received adj
Vsnces said to range from Is to 50
per DAY.
The Little Winsome Lass Of Bio
sfaph fame-Pastime.