Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1912 — Trains Run by Oil. [ARTICLE]

Trains Run by Oil.

The total length of railroad lines operated by the use of fuel oil in 1910 was 21,075 miles, a trackage equivalent to that of practically five transcontinental lines stretching across the United States from ocean to ocean. Some of the lines that use oil, however, also use coal. The number of barrels of fuel Ml, of 42 gallons each, consumed by the railroads of the country in 1910 is stated to have been 24,526,883. This Includes 768,762 barrels used by the railroads as fuel otherwise than in locomotives.*—-Railroad Man’s Magazine.