Grand Totals tor United States and Canada 



Miles of Railway Line using Oil Fuel exclusively 21,497 



" " " both Oil and Coal 4,720 



Grand totaVfor United States and Canada (miles) 26,217 



(a) Experimental basis only. 



(6) Oil used exclusively during daytime, in fire season only ; Order Public 

 Service Commission of N. Y. 



(c) See also lines in Canada. 



(d) Including 110 miles under construction. 



(e) Fire season only j line in National Forest. 



(/) Coal-burning engmes on 135 miles noted are in process of conversion to oil. 

 {g) See also Lines in U. S. 



RAILWAYS 



"The following table* of railway consumption of fuel oil is given 

 because it is practicable to present sufficiently accurate statistics to show 

 the marked gain in each year, and because this use is especially popular 

 because of the added comforts from freedom from coal cinders, because 

 of avoiding the danger of forest fires, and particularly because of the 

 saving in labour. In fact, the weight of trains where coal is burned on 

 mountain divisions is limited by the endurance of the fireman, until the 

 coal can be replaced by oil. In recommending the adoption of fuel oil 

 on the mountain divisions of the Canadian Pacific Railway, William 

 Whyte, second vice-president, states that one of the reasons for this 

 change is the removal of danger from conflagrations in the great forests 

 of British Columbia. He also alludes to the failure of immense locomo- 

 tives now in use, saying : ' It is not the failure of the locomotives ; it 

 is the failure of the fireman.' A fireman shovelling coal on one of these 

 locomotives for a distance of 130 miles is physically exhausted before 

 getting to the end of the run. The Southern Pacific uses over 1,200 

 oil-btiming locomotives ; the Santa Fe over 800 ; the Northern Pacific 

 20 ; and the Great Northern 115. 



"Thus far in locomotive use oil has simply replaced coal imder 

 boilers, but within the last year a locomotive has been constructed in 



•Extract from "The Production of Petroleum in 1911," by David T. Day, 

 Department of the Interior — U. S. Geological Survey. 



