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Friday, June 17, 2022

Because It's Friday

Reading & Northern T-1 hauling freight:



I've read that in the steam era, 20% of the freight hauled by railroads was coal for their own use.
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4 comments:

Stewart Dean said...

...also back when, there was a daily train from NYC pulling nothing but hopper cars loaded with manure. Come to think, I wonder if the return trip was hay.....

Witness:
https://www.messynessychic.com/2018/09/28/the-towns-that-were-moved-by-horses/

6/17/2022 11:31 AM
Sarah said...

28% of weight for their own fuel is about the same as a modern airliner's fuel load. (90,000 lb for a MTOW 315,000 lb 767) So not much has changed. Other than the flying, fast and high part.

6/17/2022 4:17 PM
Comrade Misfit said...

I don't think that's an apt comparison. It wasn't 20% by weight, it was 20% of freight volume. And that only got the coal from the mines to the coal tipples at the railroad yards.

6/17/2022 7:50 PM
Eck! said...

In all cases the prime mover(s) must be fed, it they
have many thats a big diet.

Two loads that railroads moved were coal, and later .
oil. As a consequence whoever controlled the fuel
routes had the control. That made a few _very_ rich.

In some areas water was a commodity.


Eck!

6/20/2022 1:29 PM

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