Re: Oil vs coal

"Oil as a Locomotive Fuel"
Scientific American Vol-105, No.14, Page 295 (September 1911)

"The advantages of oil as locomotive fuel over coal have been stated by Eugene McAulife as many. They include decreased cost of handling oil from cars to engines, with practically no loss by depreciation due to such handling; evaporation losses suffered by coal as not applying to oil; saving of time at terminals for engine cleaning and providing increased mileage per engine, the oil capacity of the tender being about 150 per cent of that of coal; freedom from physical failure of firemen in extreme hot weather; delivery of oil being unaffected by labor conditions, the coal situation necessitating in some instances heavy storage at great expense; greater cleanliness in handling all passenger trains, lack of smoke and immunity from right-of-way forest fires."