How much does it cost per Hour,Mile to run a 5 car Passenger train using diesal or Juice as fuel

[Anonymous]

Using one conducter on POP fare plan,RDC cars,Loco hauled,MU electric, All sorts of varibles here...Probaly cheaper to fly a Airplane in some circumstances.

[CSXrules4eva]

Yea mabe that's true. Just like it costs $ 40 to fly from Philly to Atlanta, and it costs $300 coach on Amtrak's Cresent to get to Atlanta from Philly. I wish it were the other way around.

[Anonymous]

Everything with the RR costs a fortune, A friggin Signal bulb costs 100 bucks, and it's a Crap 60 Watt GE standard dollar store light bulb.. so why 100 smacks?

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by kevinstheRRman

Everything with the RR costs a fortune, A friggin Signal bulb costs 100 bucks, and it's a Crap 60 Watt GE standard dollar store light bulb.. so why 100 smacks?

$90 in labour to have it installed. [:p]

[dehusman]

A diesel road engine burns about 4 gal per mile and its going for about $1.50-$1.75 a gallon. A train service employee makes about $130-180 for a basic day (plus bennies) depending on craft and the particulars of their agreement.

What costs are the 6-12 maintenance employess, 2 dispactching personnel, 6 other support people and the $$$$$ to support the right of way, maintain the cars and engines so you have a RR to run on at passenger train speeds.

Dave H.

[dldance]

An excellent cost analysis of passenger train operations can be downloaded from the Colorado Railcar's DMU site at

www.coloradorailcar.com

Some example statistics:
Fuel consumption (1 engine - 6 cars) 2.5 gal per mile
Overhaul and Maintenance costs $10.39 per mile
Crew cost $3.75 per mile
To that you still need to add equipment depreciation based on a purchase cost of about $14 million per trainset.

dd

[Anonymous]

Well if New Starts could buy used from Chicago or Metro North who has a whole junk yard in croton-harmon they could save some bucks. The cost here in Ohio is right of way from the stingy class ones

[Nora]

I didn't know anything (except my kids) could use juice as fuel...

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by macguy

QUOTE: Originally posted by kevinstheRRman

Everything with the RR costs a fortune, A friggin Signal bulb costs 100 bucks, and it's a Crap 60 Watt GE standard dollar store light bulb.. so why 100 smacks?

$90 in labour to have it installed. [:p]

Look for the union label...

LC

[Hugh Jampton]

QUOTE: Originally posted by kevinstheRRman

Everything with the RR costs a fortune, A friggin Signal bulb costs 100 bucks, and it's a Crap 60 Watt GE standard dollar store light bulb.. so why 100 smacks?

postage and packaging?????

[Anonymous]

Juice-Electricty

[Junctionfan]

V8....new kind of GE fuel?

[espeefoamer]

GEs must save lots of fuel since they spend so much time not running[B)]!