Industry Indicators

Railway Age, June, 2003

TRAFFIC ORIGINATED

CARLOADS

WEEK 20 ENDING MAY 17, 2003

MAJOR U.S. RAILROADS

By commodity                        2003     2002  % Change

Agricultural products             36,518   37,318     -2.1%
Chemicals                         32,799   34,484     -4.9%
Coal                             127,853  124,425      2.8%
Forest products                   17,678   17,695     -0.1%
Metallic ores & min.              33,406   32,414      3.1%
Motor veh. & equip.               26,660   27,356     -2.5%
Nonmetallic min. & prod.          42,773   39,774      7.5%
Other carloads                    15,092   14,200      6.3%
Total cars loaded                332,779  327,666      1.6%

CANADIAN RAILROADS

By commodity                        2003     2002  % Change

Agricultural products             10,338   12,442    -16.9%
Chemicals                         13,522   13,571     -0.4%
Coal                               8,404    9,746    -13.8%
Forest products                   10,941   11,040     -0.9%
Metallic ores & min.               5,766    5,511      4.6%
Motor veh. & equip.                7,801    8,122     -4.0%
Nonmetallic min. & prod.           3,863    4,237      8.8%
Other Carloads                     2,440    2,023     20.6%
Total cars loaded                 63,075   66,692     -5.4%

U.S./Canadian total              395,854  394,358      0.4%

U.S. TOTAL

20 weeks: 6,411,113
% change from 2002: 0.7%

CANADIAN TOTAL

20 weeks: 1,240,020
% change from 2002: -1.6%

U.S./CANADIAN TOTAL

20 weeks: 7,651,133
% change from 2002: 0.3%

MEXICO (TFM reporting)

All commodities                    8,824    8,539      3.3%

TOTAL

20 weeks: 173,069
% change from 2002: 3.4%

INTERMODAL UNITS

WEEK 20 ENDING MAY 17, 2003

U.S. TRAFFIC

Trailers                          47,990   48,908     -1.9%
Containers                       146,868  137,694      6.7%
Total units                      194,858  186,602      4.4%

CANADIAN TRAFFIC

Trailers                           4,705    4,798     -1.9%
Containers                        40,123   36,097     11.2%
Total units                       44,828   40,895      9.6%

U.S./Canadian total              239,686  227,497      5.4%

U.S. TOTAL

20 weeks: 3,686,003
% change from 2002: 7.4%

CANADIAN TOTAL

20 weeks: 812,857
% change from 2002: 10.4%

U.S./CANADIAN TOTAL

20 weeks: 4,498,860
% change from 2002: 7.9%

MEXICO (TFM reporting)

Trailers                             477      468      1.9%
Containers                         3,178    2,648     20.0%
Total units                        3,655    3,116     17.3%

TOTAL

20 weeks: 70,397
% change from 2002: 38.6%

Estimated ton miles (billions),
 U.S. Class I railroads

Week 20                             28.9     28.2      2.5%

Totals 2003

2003: 567.1
2002: 562.2
% change: 0.9%

Source: "Weekly Railroad Traffic," Association of American Railroads

Freight cars, new (all owners)

Delivered

(1st Quarter 2003)   6,614
(3rd Quarter 2002)   4,925
(2nd Quarter 2002)   4,155
(1st Quarter 2002)   3,855

Ordered

(1st Quarter 2003)  11,767
(3rd Quarter 2002)  10,135
(2nd Quarter 2002)   6,973
(1st Quarter 2002)   2,637

Backlogged

(1st Quarter 2003)  24,055
(3rd Quarter 2002)  14,491
(2nd Quarter 2002)   9,281
(1st Quarter 2002)   6,443

Note: Table made from bar graph

Twelve-month year-end comparison

      Orders  Deliveries

2002  28,457  17,714
2001  19,872  34,260
2000  45,835  55,821

Note: Figures that do not track reflect revisions to a prior quarter
made subsequent to that quarter's reporting.

Source: American Railway Car Institute Committee, Railway Supply
Institute

Note: Table made from bar graph

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