Identifier: electricrailway551920newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
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will be similar to those used on the former.The cost of operation of the service rendered for as will be seen from the accompanying illustration, butthe same period, which covers not only the wages of they will be furnished with regenerative braking con-repairmen and operators, gas, oil, etc., but overhead trol. There will be eight freight locomotives weighing Total Operating revenues $5,458.66 Operating expenses: Wages of bus operators and repairmen 2,162. 00 Gasoline—3,625 gal. at 26 cents 942. 50 Oil—188 qts. at 20 cents 37.60 Tire allowance 761.40 Insurance 282.00 Depreciation 2,030. 40 Total operating expenses $6,215.90 Deficit from operation $757.24 Taxes 100.00 Interest 225. 00 Net loss from bus operation $ 1,082. 24 Saving on trolley car operation, 140 miles per day at $35 per day 3,290.00 Net revenue from operating buses 2,207. 76 Bus-miles operated 25,385 Average miles per gallon of gasoline 7.0 Miles per quart of oil 135.0 * Per car-mile (trolley). 200 984089 4*25 2700
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SIDE ELEVATION OF 100-TON ELECTRIC FREIGHT LOCOMOTIVE FOR BRAZIL expenses, including really a larger depreciation reservethan necessary, indicates that the buses were run at25.73 cents per bus-mile. In these costs depreciation isfigured at 8 cents per bus-mile, which would ex-tinguish their initial cost of $4,800 at approximately60,000 miles. It is fair to say that this rate of deprecia-tion is high and does not consider the scrap value of thebus, nor does it take into account the fact that theautomotive power plant depreciates faster than the restof the equipment. Another factor to be considered by the company isthe net cost of operation of the property as a whole,for as the result of the bus operation there was asaving of 140 trolley car-miles per day between Green-field and Turners Falls. If only the actual cash expendi-tures of $35 per day to provide this car mileage isconsidered, added to the net income from the busoperation, the result would be then a fair surplusinstead of a de

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