Text Appearing Before Image: ng the rush-hour services. On the whole, how-ever, to quote in substance a recent expression on thesubject by a well-known operating man, the possibilitieswithin a company are usually quite as great as anyoutside. In other words, the rerouting of cars to cutout dead car mileage, the changing from swing runs tostraight runs where such changes will permit the reg-ular crews to operate trippers on overtime, the use ofproper cars for the service, and similar schemes arequite as productive of results from the labor standpointas anything else. 322 Electric Railway Journal Vol 52, No. 8 Norfolk & Western Electrification HelpingDirectly to Win the War The Fifty Per Cent Increase in the Mountain Grade Capacity of the Norfolk & Western ThroughElectrification Has Permitted Millions of Tons of Americas Best Coal, Otherwise LockedUp, to Go to Our Ships and Shops—An Electrification in the Very Heart of a Great CoalRegion Which Has Also Proved Successful in Technical and Financial Respects Text Appearing After Image: THE ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE COAL TRAIN SERVICE THAT IS PLAYING A REAL PART IN FURNISHING THE FUEL FOR UNCLE SAMS SHIPS ON page 22 of the last annual report of the Norfolk& Western Railway was the significant statementthat during the month of October, 1917, when con-ditions were normal, the cost of freight movement withelectricity was 26 per cent less that if steam had beenused. For amplification of the companys operatingstatement it is permissible to state that the electriccosts included allowance for fixed charges, depreciation,maintenance of track, line, power and shops, etc.; whilethe steam figures covering similar charges were calcu-lated in accordance with the rules of the InterstateCommerce Commission. But it must be far more gratifying to the directorsof the company to know that their decision to electrifyhas also proved of the greatest possible value in thewinning of the war. For it is the famous Pocahontascoal that is used by our Navy in millions of tons, andonly through elec
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