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California • Little coal is mined on the Pacific coast so 

 that oil makes the cheapest fuel to use in that region* 

 Oil has almost entirely replaced coal for locomotive fuel 

 in Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada and Western 

 /rizona, ^ But in other parts of the country fuel oil is 

 more expensive than coal. In a number of cases the United 

 States Forest Service requires that the railroads which 

 cross the National Forests must burn oil for fuel. The 

 Southern Pacific Railroad is the largest consumer of fuel 

 oil. 



The Hew York State Public Service Commission re- 

 quires that the New York Central and the Delaware and Hudson 

 Hailroads burn oil from 8:00 J^.M. to 8:00 P.M. from April 

 15 to November 1, in the Adirondack region. Previous to 

 this order of the Commission, the only railroad in the 

 /dirondacks which was free from fire complaints was the 

 Bacquette Lake Hailroad. This was due to the fact that fuel 

 oil was burned during the summer. The average cost of changing 

 engines from coal to oil burners was $bZO^ and the cost of 

 changing back to coal was |25. 



Bristol (1912) says, ''The cost of burning coal per 

 engine mile in 1910 on the Delaware and Hudson Railroad was 

 |*10i.6 as against |*282S for oil ; and in 1911, |*1174 as 

 against $.2521, or an increase per engine mile due to the 

 burning of oil in 1910 of |*1777 and 1911 an increase of 

 |*1347." 



The Delaware and Hudson Company says that fuel oil 

 as a fire preventative measure is very satisfactory but it is 

 too expensive •; that with a great deal less expense a patrol 



