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— 614 1 81 Bangor & Aroostock Railroad Company .. .. .. .. < .. 35,489,422 8,365,757 63.95 Boston and Maine Railroad Company .. 265,052,470 69,278 335 73.42 2,090 768 Central Vermont Railway Company (Canadian National) .. 28,915,088 596,398 88.02 469 68 Maine Central Railroad Company 56,659,271 18,992,373 75.54 1,121 200 New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company 564'224,518 118,885,515 67.25 2,128
413 809 Rutland Railroad Company 28,426,489 5,286,186 84.83 85 Great Lakes Region— 272 Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railway Company (Baltimore & Ohio) .. 67,409,643 15,364,002 84.11 602 Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company (Canadian National) .. 119,381'901 26,243,106 84.01 1,020 326 Delaware & Hudson Company^ .. 165,313,611 9,466,883 84.43 882 fl I 443 Delaware & Hudson R.R. Corporation".. 100,413,056 28,439,260 79.97 882 439 Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company 201,436,228 69,661,490 75.53 998 638 Erie Railroad Company .. 568,180,050 95.372,547 79.84 2,046 908 Lehigh Valley Railroad Company 237,927,402 60,664,188 79.36 1,362 721 New York Central Railroad Company .. 1,664,795,466 478,918,348 78.66 11,421 4,888 : Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Company (New York Central) .. 114,309,015 27,341,198 78.75 232 266 New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company .. 279,647,745 46,533,186 75.46 1,662 449 Pere Marquette Railway Company 171,443,186 37,216,378 78.00 2,253 371 Wabash Railway Company 339,228,022 61,970,752 76.25 2,524 701 Central Eastern Region— Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company .. 1,121,453,476 206,660,435 74.10 5,658 2,308 : Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railway Company.. 86,618,072 19,784,299 109.69 946 291 Long Island Railroad Company (Pennsylvania) 139,480,462 39,596,434 65.93 404 100 Pennsylvania Railroad Company 1,951,634,955 570,465,360 74.88 10,892 5,580 Central Railroad Company of New Jersey (Reading).. 202,813,198 51,753,823 73.75 692 528 Reading Company 450,705,459 86,922.614 83.02 1,458 971 Western Maryland Railway Company .. 165,446,506 17,792,694 65.41 895 254 Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway Company 101,347,071 16,358,984 73.22 512 191 SOUTHERN DISTRICT. Pocahontas Region— Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company.. 645,047,132 131,597,053 63.09 2,981 1,108 Norfolk & Western Railway Company .. 519,919,829 100,530,458 59.36 2,240 766 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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