1932 North America - United States

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NORTH AMERICA—UNITED STATES.

I.—GENERAL PARTICULARS.
(Source : I.C.C. 44th Annual Report on the Statistics of Railways in the United States for the Year ended 31 December, 1930.)
Inter-State Commerce Commission, 1931: Ezra Brainerd, Jr. (Chairman); P. J. Farrell; Frank McManamy ; J. B. Eastman ; B. H. Meyer; C. B. Aitchison ; E. I. Lewis ; C. R. Porter; W. E. Lee ; C. D. Mahaffie ; Hugh M. Tate.

The railways of the United States are divided into three classes, based on their earning power. In Class I are railways with annual operating revenues of over $1,000,000 (approximately £200,000); the remaining lines fall into Class II, with annual operating revenues between $100,000, and $1,000,000, and Class III with annual operating revenues under $100,000. Certain of the larger terminal and switching companies which are a feature of American railway organisation are included by reason of their annual operating revenues in Class I, but the vast majority of the Class I railways are main line companies and correspond to the four main line railways of Great Britain.

There were approximately 156 Class I operating steam railways reporting to the I.C.C. in 1930, but in practice the number of systems is considerably less because, to take an example, the Missouri Pacific System consists of seven operating companies, and the Illinois Central System consists of the Illinois Central Railroad Company, the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad Company, the Central of Georgia Railway Company and the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company, each of which renders a separate report to the Inter-State Commerce Commission.

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SUMMARY STATISTICS OF MOST IMPORTANT NORTH AMERICAN RAILWAYS

EASTERN DISTRICT.
New England Region—

• Bangor & Aroostock Railroad Company
• Boston and Maine Railroad Company
• Central Vermont Railway Company (Canadian National)
• Maine Central Railroad Company
• New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company
• Rutland Railroad Company

Great Lakes Region—

• Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railway Company (Baltimore & Ohio)
• Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company (Canadian National)
• Delaware & Hudson Company
• Delaware & Hudson R.R. Corporation
• Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company
• Erie Railroad Company
• Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
• New York Central Railroad Company
• Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Company (New York Central)
• New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company
• Pere Marquette Railway Company
• Wabash Railway Company

Central Eastern Region—

• Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company
• Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railway Company
• Long Island Railroad Company (Pennsylvania)
• Pennsylvania Railroad Company
• Central Railroad Company of New Jersey (Reading)
• Reading Company
• Western Maryland Railway Company
• Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway Company

SOUTHERN DISTRICT.
Pocahontas Region—

• Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company
• Norfolk & Western Railway Company
• Virginian Railway Company
  

SUMMARY STATISTICS OF MOST IMPORTANT NORTH AMERICAN RAILWAYS—continued.
Southern Region—

• Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company
  
• Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company (Atlantic Coast Line)
• Florida East Coast Railway Company ..
  
• Illinois Central Railroad Company
  
• Seaboard Air Line Railway Company ..
  
• Southern Railway Company
  

WESTERN DISTRICT.
North Western Region—

• Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault St. Marie Railway Company (Canadian Pacific)
  
• Chicago & North Western Railway Company ..
  
• Chicago Great Western Railroad Company ..
  
• Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Company
  
• Great Northern Railway Company
  
• Northern Pacific Railway Company
  
• Spokane, Portland &, Seattle Railway Company
  
• Oregon—Washington Railroad & Navigation Company (Union Pacific)
  

Central Western Region—

• Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company
  
• Colorado & Southern Railway Company (Chicago, Burlington & Quincy)
  
• Chicago & Alton Railroad Company
  
• Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Company ..
  
• Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company ..
  
• Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company
  
• Southern Pacific Company
  
• Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company (Union Pacific)
  
• Oregon Short Line Railroad Company (Union Pacific)
  
• Union Pacific Railroad Company
  
• Western Pacific Railroad Company
  

South Western Region—

• St. Louis—San Francisco Railway Company
  
• Kansas City Southern Railway Company
  
• Missouri—Kansas—Texas Railroad Company..
  
• Missouri Pacific Railroad Company
  
• Texas & Pacific Railway Company (Missouri Pacific)
  
• St. Louis—South-western Railway Company ..
  

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