The Cost Savings of Steam Today.

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Please add me to the list of people interested in reading it.
   
  Will Sadler
  

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      John:
   
  I would be interested in reading the paper.  thanks for your work
   
  George Weber
  NCTMF, Rail Operations

    
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Group:

I have just finished a 2+ year project comparing the economics of the diesel locomotive and the modern steam locomotive.  The following is an excerpt from my paper:

"A coal-fueled locomotive could achieve a 64.2% average cost savings over the
current petroleum diesel-fueled locomotive. This comparison is based on ton-miles per
dollar of fuel consumed in calendar year 2006. US Class I railroads burned 4.2 billion
gallons of diesel fuel in 2006, costing $8.1 billion. The dollar value of coal that would 
accomplish the same amount of "work" is only $3.0 billion, according to calculations.
This is a cost savings of $5.1 billion in the single year of 2006. That is an incredible
cost savings over the use of diesel fuel, which is largely imported, compared to coal, 
which is mined locally in the US. Those 4.2 billion gallons of diesel fuel comprise 6.6%
of the nation's diesel fuel use. That quantity of diesel fuel could be replaced by 72.3
million tons of coal, equivalent to only 6.2% of the 1.16 billion ton yearly production
of coal."

This modern steam locomotive would be powered by coal and be environmentally responsible, low maintenance and conform to the needs of railroads today. 

If anyone is interested in reading the paper (it is a 100+ page PDF).  I can ask the moderator to post it for the group.

I hope you find this interesting,

John Rhodes
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