Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 288, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1913 — Small Wastes on Railways. [ARTICLE]

Small Wastes on Railways.

A somewhat amusing but instructive method of drawing their employes' attention to the, effect of small wastes is adopted, according to the Railway and Engineering Review, by the Pere Marquette Railroad. A table has been -’rawn up by the company showing that for every postage stamp needlessly used the railway has to haul one ton of freight a distance of 3% miles to recoup for this two miles; a track-spike, two miles; one pound waste, 10% miles; a lamp chimney, 10% miles; a station broom, 35 miles; a lantern, 100 miles; track-shovel, 90 miles; 100 pounds of coal, 20 miles; one gallon engine oil, 50 miles; one gallon signal oil, 60 miles; air hose, 225 miles; drawbar knuckle, 300 miles.