What One Railroad Has Done 



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By electrically 

 operating but 

 440 miles of 

 railway, the 

 C. M. & St. P. 

 has effected 

 enormous sav- 

 ings in coal. 

 What it means 

 is shown in the 

 diagrams below 



One of the powerhouses far up 

 among the Montana Rockies 



The figures are for one 

 year's operation. We 

 need coal in war zones 

 badly. This railroad's 

 savings have helped 





Train driven by the cm,it4y uf 

 the restless mountain streams 



Coal saved would send 

 a destroyer on 2,368 

 trips around Britain 



Or, it would furnish power 

 for sending 90 transports 

 once to France with soldiers 



Forty-five destroyers could 

 be kept steaming around the 

 British Isles an entire year 



Electrification did a- 

 way with 126 engines 



1,756 tank cars would have had to 

 carry fuel if steam had been used 



5,000 coal cars can 

 now serve elsewhere 



will come to pass. So also will they when 

 the powdered coal method of burning is 

 more generally utilized. Both systems 

 can do wonders in the way of getting the 

 good out of poor grades of coal. 



Inseparably connected with our present 

 railway muddle, and the fact that archaic 

 methods of distributing and using coals 

 make more demands on transportation 

 facilities than any system should, are the 

 peculiar conditions in the producing 



areas. There are lean years, and there 

 are fat years. There are big operators and 

 there are little operators. Some are lo- 

 cated close to trunkline railroads and 

 centers of consumption, others are at the 

 far end of crooked, hill-dodging, weed- 

 strewn branch lines, up which a rusty 

 locomotive and a string of broken-down 

 cars get once a day perhaps, and then 

 again perhaps not. Some of the opera- 

 tors, because of having obtained their 



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