Railroads, Class I Line-Haul-Revenue Freight Originated, by Commodity Group statistics


Commodity group	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998
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Carloads (1,000) ¹	22,223	21,343	18,585	19,013	20,946	19,501	19,587	20,602	21,600	21,226	21,401	20,868	21,205	21,683	23,179	23,726	24,159	25,016	25,705
Coal	5,789	5,835	5,718	5,276	6,061	5,684	5,433	5,430	5,621	5,672	5,912	5,683	5,572	5,310	5,681	6,095	6,746	6,703	7,027
Farm products	1,866	1,637	1,566	1,642	1,757	1,494	1,602	1,907	1,977	1,781	1,689	1,605	1,646	1,636	1,459	1,692	1,530	1,408	1,404
Chemicals, allied products	1,322	1,322	1,120	1,216	1,312	1,296	1,287	1,410	1,497	1,486	1,531	1,556	1,568	1,606	1,695	1,642	1,639	1,674	1,653
Food and kindred products	1,767	1,557	1,391	1,316	1,234	1,224	1,276	1,326	1,318	1,284	1,307	1,316	1,352	1,380	1,381	1,377	1,302	1,295	1,282
Nonmetallic minerals ²	1,474	1,272	958	1,079	1,204	1,196	1,113	1,188	1,290	1,254	1,202	1,075	1,029	1,044	1,138	1,159	1,176	1,160	1,256
Transportation equipment	1,004	939	801	954	1,141	1,202	1,148	1,085	1,160	1,141	1,091	1,068	1,181	1,355	1,448	1,473	1,442	1,485	1,671
Lumber and wood products ³	1,384	1,254	1,002	1,075	1,051	948	965	986	910	843	780	716	726	710	771	719	682	669	645
Pulp, paper, allied products	954	899	765	746	741	703	672	561	646	615	611	616	618	620	651	628	589	582	547
Petroleum and coal products	596	607	467	495	529	491	477	520	568	561	573	533	583	584	602	596	567	534	510
Stone, clay, and glass products	776	690	516	543	576	551	530	559	577	565	539	479	483	487	512	516	491	485	475
Metallic ores	1,258	1,354	761	812	1,001	511	508	494	582	523	508	499	489	443	440	463	443	327	311
Primary metal products	756	760	459	440	487	449	389	428	479	452	477	469	481	528	579	575	597	604	644
Waste and scrap materials	632	610	409	417	480	429	402	440	471	444	439	433	487	558	604	623	605	608	581
Machinery, exc. electrical	77	66	43	38	40	35	31	33	40	38	39	39	39	37	40	41	40	43	37
Fabricated metal products ⁴	72	55	36	33	37	31	26	24	26	27	31	34	32	37	37	32	29	29	27

Tons (mil.) ¹	1,492	1,453	1,269	1,293	1,429	1,320	1,306	1,372	1,429	1,403	1,425	1,383	1,399	1,397	1,470	1,550	1,611	1,585	1,649
Coal	522	528	524	494	567	538	518	523	543	551	579	560	554	534	574	627	705	705	749
Farm products	156	140	134	142	151	127	136	163	170	154	147	144	149	147	131	154	142	126	129
Chemicals, allied products	108	106	91	99	107	106	106	116	123	123	126	127	130	134	142	138	139	140	139
Nonmetallic minerals ²	125	110	85	97	108	108	101	109	115	111	109	99	94	96	106	110	113	109	120
Food and kindred products	92	83	77	75	72	74	78	81	81	79	81	83	86	88	88	91	87	86	87
Lumber and wood products ³	86	80	66	72	70	63	65	67	62	57	53	48	50	49	54	51	49	48	47
Metallic ores	105	114	63	68	86	47	46	45	52	47	47	45	45	41	40	44	42	32	31
Stone, clay, and glass products	54	49	38	42	45	44	42	44	46	47	44	39	40	40	42	43	42	41	41
Petroleum and coal products	38	39	32	34	35	33	33	35	39	39	40	37	41	41	43	43	42	39	38
Primary metal products	53	53	32	32	36	34	30	33	38	36	38	37	39	43	47	47	49	50	53
Pulp, paper, allied products	42	42	36	37	38	36	36	36	35	34	33	33	34	34	37	36	33	32	31
Waste and scrap materials	34	34	23	25	29	26	25	28	30	28	28	27	30	35	37	38	38	37	36
Transportation equipment	24	22	19	22	26	27	26	24	25	24	23	22	25	29	30	30	29	31	36
Machinery, exc. electrical	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Fabricated metal products ⁴	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

Gross revenue (mil. dol.) ¹	26,938	29,590	26,504	26,710	29,866	28,225	27,186	27,657	29,529	29,328	29,775	29,319	29,777	30,376	32,424	33,782	34,310	34,964	34,898
Coal	4,956	5,977	6,307	5,969	6,965	6,556	6,089	6,097	6,430	6,581	6,954	6,903	6,717	6,481	7,021	7,356	7,706	7,698	7,997
Chemicals, allied products	2,946	3,288	2,942	3,078	3,360	3,342	3,342	3,477	3,795	3,788	3,933	4,043	4,123	4,277	4,520	4,553	4,660	4,764	4,610
Transportation equipment	1,917	2,120	1,966	2,292	2,859	3,110	2,997	2,866	3,218	3,269	3,100	2,633	2,753	3,021	3,257	3,269	3,390	3,462	3,339
Farm products	2,801	2,621	2,305	2,374	2,483	1,977	2,007	2,246	2,534	2,444	2,422	2,332	2,454	2,528	2,407	3,020	2,807	2,645	2,529
Food and kindred products	2,837	2,928	2,604	2,349	2,309	2,256	2,192	2,171	2,198	2,128	2,188	2,254	2,308	2,336	2,427	2,464	2,378	2,385	2,378
Pulp, paper, allied products	1,652	1,848	1,717	1,671	1,762	1,641	1,572	1,542	1,540	1,514	1,486	1,502	1,508	1,511	1,510	1,543	1,485	1,507	1,472
Lumber and wood products ³	1,543	1,559	1,303	1,527	1,611	1,525	1,563	1,660	1,626	1,500	1,390	1,282	1,342	1,324	1,421	1,385	1,409	1,471	1,487
Primary metal products	1,332	1,559	977	816	955	872	787	863	1,013	972	979	977	970	1,021	1,114	1,199	1,254	1,294	1,304
Stone, clay, and glass products	1,025	1,114	888	908	1,024	960	907	914	965	960	931	878	911	944	1,009	1,044	1,033	1,063	1,056
Petroleum and coal products	865	1,019	887	844	913	861	800	809	903	917	918	888	943	929	967	997	1,013	1,028	991
Nonmetallic minerals ²	948	1,036	852	834	997	949	839	854	890	868	885	824	812	818	862	875	895	899	920
Waste and scrap materials	513	573	418	423	496	446	425	474	526	492	504	515	558	613	655	685	702	711	693
Metallic ores	597	723	403	450	567	403	375	348	415	397	408	400	409	385	378	394	382	399	373
Machinery, exc. electrical	176	176	115	75	81	72	58	57	63	66	67	62	61	59	65	69	70	73	64
Fabricated metal products ⁴	110	105	71	52	57	48	40	37	38	38	42	48	45	50	50	44	41	41	37

1 Includes commodity groups and small packaged freight shipments, not shown separately.
2 Except fuels.
3 Except furniture.
4 Except ordnance, machinery, and transport.

Source: Association of American Railroads, Washington, DC, Freight Commodity Statistics, annual. http://www.aar.org/comm/statfact.nsf/5406ac733125e6c7852564d000737b60?OpenView

http://www.allcountries.org/uscensus/1062_railroads_class_i_line_haul_revenue.html

These tables are based on figures supplied by the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce and are subject to revision by the Census Bureau.

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