RE: [DL] Passenger Train Economics

["Jeffery Yates" <jyates@qlinktech.com>]

Just a couple o' things I learned riding the Durango to Silverton
narrowguage rail (in Colorado).

The trip is 45 miles each way, and the train stopped a couple of times for
water.

Info in the rail book indicates that larger locomotives carried 18000
gallons of water, and 30 to 40 TONS of coal.  The 90 mile trip I was on
didn't stop for coal, just water, and made several trips per day.

At this site (http://www.steamlocomotive.com/yellowstone/) I found a
reference to huge coal burning locomotives going thru 25000 gallons of water
and 25 tons of coal to travel 8 miles (using Mapquest.com's estimate).  This
site also said that pulling the empty ore cars up the almost continuous
grade was the hardest thing the engines ever did.  'Course, these were built
in the 1940's, consumed 10 to 12 tons of coal per hour and 12000 gallons of
water per hour.  Pulling 180 ore cars.  Yikes!

http://www.chessie614.com/614story.html states that this locomotive was
overhauled recently (sometime in the 1976 -- originally built in 1948),
given new tenders to carry 50000 gallons of water and 50 tons of coal so it
could pull 25 car train at 70-80mph "all day."

Don't know if this actually helps the discussion, but it was interesting
info to me.

Jeff Y.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-deadlands@gamerz.net [mailto:owner-deadlands@gamerz.net]On
Behalf Of Marguerite Frey
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 12:21 PM
To: deadlands@gamerz.net
Subject: Re: [DL] Passenger Train Economics


--- UriahGutsball@aol.com wrote:
> Of course, one pound
> isn't going to heat a whole Train's boiler- you're
> going to need at least
> 35-50lbs of nice hot ghost rock in a boiler to get
> it up to temperature- but
> once up to temperature, each pound of Rock in th
> boiler should be worth about
> its 100 miles to the pound, depending on how long it
> takes to get hot in the
> boiler.

Good point, thanks for pointing it out.

Marguerite of EMGB, otherwise known as Maggie Jensen


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