Industry Indicators - railroad industry - Brief Article - Statistical Data Included

Railway Age, Jan, 2002

Industry Indicators

TRAFFIC ORIGINATED

CARLOADS

WEEK 51 ENDING DECEMBER 22, 2001

MAJOR U.S. RAILROADS

By commodity                 2001     2000  % Change

Agricultural products      43,414   38,129     13.9%
Chemicals                  34,402   34,370      0.1%
Coal                      145,911  123,402     18.2%
Forest products            19,948   19,300      3.4%
Metallic ores & min.       23,242   29,841    -22.1%
Motor veh. & equip.        27,638   23,174     19.3%
Nonmetallic min. & prod.   31,759   28,818     10.2%
Other carloads             12,646   12,579      0.5%
Total cars loaded         338,960  309,613      9.5%

CANADIAN RAILROADS

By commodity                 2001     2000  % Change

Agricultural products      16,345   13,720     11.8%
Chemicals                  13,455   13,912     -3.3%
Coal                        5,444    7,364    -26.1%
Forest products             9,755    9,148      6.6%
Metallic ores & min.        3,342    3,033     10.2%
Motor veh. & equip.         8,544    7,639     11.8%
Nonmetallic min. & prod.    2,223    2,837    -21.6%
Other carloads              1,859    1,422     30.7%
Total cars loaded          59,967   59,075      1.5%

U.S./Canadian total       398,927  368,688      8.2%
                         51 weeks   % change from 2000

U.S. TOTAL              17,027,642        -0.7%
CANADIAN TOTAL           3,160,092        -1.9%
U.S./CANADIAN TOTAL     20,187,734        -0.9%

MEXICO (TFM reporting)

TOTAL                        8,377         n/a
INTERMODAL UNITS

WEEK 51 ENDING DECEMBER 22, 2001

U.S. TRAFFIC

                     2001     2000     % Change

Trailers              50,282   53,712  -6.4%
Containers           119,800  114,343   4.8%
Total units          170,082  168,055   1.2%

CANADIAN TRAFFIC

Trailers               3,985    3,841   3.7%
Containers            31,042   30,454   1.9%
Total units           35,027   34,295   2.1%

U.S./Canadian total  205,109  202,350   1.4%
                     51 weeks    % change from 2000

U.S. TOTAL            8,831,394        -2.4%
CANADIAN TOTAL        1,808,815         2.0%
U.S./CANADIAN TOTAL  10,640,209        -1.7%
MEXICO (TFM reporting)

             2001   2000  % Change

Trailers       402  n/a    n/a
Containers   1,494  n/a    n/a
Total units  1,896  n/a    n/a
Estimated ton-miles (billions)

U.S. Class I railroads

         2001  2000  % Change

Week 51  30.7  27.2  12.9%
Totals 2001

2001     2000     % change

1,468.9  1,452.5  1.1%

Source: "Weekly Railroad Traffic," Association of American Railroads
PASSENGER CAR TRENDS


Delivered

2001       1,935
2000       1,014
1999         816
1998         542
1997         496
1996         719

Backlogged

2002       2,946
2001       3,921
2000       3,745
1999       3,121
1998       2,791
1997       1,894

These statistics are compiled exclusively as part of Railway Age's
annual Passenger Car Review and Outlook. See page 49 for this year's
chart and more detailed information on passenger car trends.

Note: Table made from bar graph

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