Webb concentrated on reducing gross ton miles and augmented net ton miles by increasing full carload lots.
2.
The result was the company had purchased a locomotive which would pull 15 % more tonnage in 9 % less time, burning 17 % less coal per 1000 gross ton miles than its 3800 series 2-10-2s.
3.
It was noted in the 1944 Railway Mechanical Engineers that fuel performance for the CofG K class 4-8-4s was well under 100 lb of coal per 1, 000 gross ton miles and averaged 11.4 lb per passenger-train car mile in service