Salt Lake Telegram | 1952-07-12 | Page 10 | Well, Blow Me down!

L w q L I I Mv I A p f. f f e 4 1 a rI t t Demonstrates Diesel Whistle John R. R Sherwood sits in a Diesel locomotive and gives fives the whistle the works In his job you toot tool your own horn Well Blow Me Down Whistle le T Tooting Costs On Daily Rail Runs to Ogden I II I By Br CLARENCE RENCE D. D WILLIAMS ILLIAMS Have you wondered how much it costs a railroad to sound its locomotive whistles at crossings The answer to the question has been found for the Union Pacific's Pacific's Pa Pa- run between Salt Lake City and Ogden The mile 36 line is traversed by a total of 12 passenger passenger pas pas- trains and 10 freights making a total of 22 trains every 24 hours On that particular run a modern mod mod- ern eri Casey Jones driving a Century Diesel locomotive blows the whistle at each of 48 crossings crossings cross cross- ings and at three dangerous curves making a total of 5 51 toots round trip for one train This figures up to 1122 train toots I daily I After carefully figuring the cost of fuel used by the Diesel to toI I I blow its whistle sounds more I like a fog horn each toot costs I tenths eight of a cent Costs a Da Day This Tills amount pays for a whistle of 14 seconds duration This means that it costs the Union Pacific 8 97 a day to toot its own I horn between Salt Lake City and Ogden That equals about a week or about a a year This proves that the Union Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- or any other railroad does docs give a toot for the public public main main mainly ly ly to protect automobile drivers from their own carelessness Railroad accountants said that if costs tenths nine of a cent to blow a whistle on a steam loco loco- motive Blows Whistle If you didn't know the engineer engi engi- n neer eer alwa always s 's blows the whistle because because be be- c cause ause he sits on the right hand s side ide of the car and sees the signals sig sig- sig n nals als better Because operating conditions d differ greatly on in different railroads railroads rail rail- r roads oads and therefore it is difficult c cult to tell which one gives the most toots railroad officials inthe in m t the he nation have agreed that the cost ost c of whistling for U. U S. S railroads rail r roads oads wouldn't be worth a toot if ii i it t didn't help save so many lives In the future there may not be another Casey Jones who can I t toot oot his own train whistle Modern Modern Mod Mod- em ern science may toot it for him