Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1917 — Little Things in Railroading. [ARTICLE]

Little Things in Railroading.

It is the little things in railroading, as in every other business, that make profit or loss. Who would think of the stopping and starting of trains as being an important item of expense to a railroad? President Willard of the B. & O. has figured that it costs’an average of $1.60 to stop a passenger train. When the air brakes are applied extra coal is needed to generate the steam which compresses the air. The car wheels, the brake shoes and the rails —all feel wear and tear in stopping. In getting under headway after astop there is unusual expenditu re of st ea m aga Ih, and more wea r and tear on the equipment. On a train with 17 stops it would require 30 through passengers to pay the cost of starting and stopping the train. —Leslie's Weekly.