Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-21


Fifty shovels of coal used unnecessarily a trip
means that the company will have to haul extra
ton of freight two hundred miles to pay for it.
An engineer rough handle his engine that he
will not only waste steam, and hence fuel but he
jolt and jar the locomotive that the mechanism will
give out. Rewards today offered dozen
different roads engineers and remen who make their
regular trips minimum supply of coal and oil.
This policy of encouraging economy has resulted in
enormous savings.
1--WE have cut down fuel consumption on regular
train trips twenty per cent in the last two years.
stated the division superintendent of of the Eastern
roads, through system of penalties and rewards.
The average amount of both fuel and oil take for the
standard has been worked out carefully. A maximum
of ten per cent. this amount IS allowed for each
locomotive. If more than this maximum is used the
fireman engineer both fined unless good
sons, such delays and accidents be given For
anything less than the average used each trip the
engineer and fireman get credit. If they more
than ten per cent of the standard amount they receive
fifty per of the Of the fuel saved In the
of several hundred trips made in year these rewards
sometimes cunt to considerable for the They
appreciate it, and work accordingly
An engineer who is careless in starting and stopping
may easily break the air hose in time and the of
that equals hauling ton of freight two hundred and
twenty-five miles A broken drawbar knuckle equals
hauling ton of freight three hundred miles, and
iremans lost shovel hauling ton ninety miles
to pay for it.
The economy bug is carried into every department
OF the road, and track Walkers SWchne yaTdnaSteTS,
and shop workers are brought under the system.
Trackmen and switchmen warned that lanterns
must be handled with greater A white lantern
globe equals in cost the hauling of ton of freight
twenty miles, red lantern globe, seventy-fve miles;
and complete lantern, hundred miles. Even a
pound of for wpng engines and switch locks is
worth ten and half miles of freight haulage.
THE vardmaster and yardmen are responsible for a
lot of losses that were formerly overlooked. The
of Ia1D,,
from thirty to thirty five cents day when held unduy.
Railroad economy well railroad efficiency demands
that all shall be despatched to their destination
The system of handling these foreign diff
fers the various roads. Some apparently have
SYSTEM at best very clumsy and involved one.
Years ago, through lack of SYSTEM many freight
had the disagreeable habit of disappearing for long
periods, and the different roads had to employ
to hunt them up. Some roads, either intention
ally through lack of system, retained borrowed
indefinitely, and then sent them back home by the
longest route
There runaways wanderers in those days
which travelled several thousand miles before they fl
nay reached home again. One such freight car, known
No. 6,184 left its home February p, 1898 and wan
dered almost continuously until March 3, 1885, when
it at last rolled into its home shed. Car tracers
had chased it good part of the United States, and
than it had been started homeward; but It
managed get away again and during its wanderings
it visited nearly all the principal cities OF the country
1t estimated by the that it had travelled
twenty thousand miles, and had carried all sorts OF
merchandise and provisions, from the prairies