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MOTIVE POWER AND CAR EQUIPMENT OF CLASS I STEAM RAILWAYS IN THE UNITED STATES
Compiled from 158 reports representing 167 steam railways

(CLASS I SWITCHING AND TERMINAL COMPANIES INCLUDED)

FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST 1953 AMD 1952


ITEM


AGGREGATES
1. Locomotives assigned to yard switching services at close of month: 0
1-01. Number of steam locomotives . . . . . . . . .
1-02. Number of diesel-electric locomotives . . . . . .
1-03. Number of electric locomotives . . . . . . . ..
1-0o. Number of other locomotives . . . . . . . . .
i-06. Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1-06. Number serviceable (not stored) . . . . . . . .
1-07. Number serviceable stored . . . . . . . . .
1-08. Number unserviceable . . . . . . . . ....
2. Locomotives assigned to road freight service at close of month:
2-01. Number of steam locomotives . . . . . . . . .
2-02. Number of diesel-electric locomotives . . . . . .
2-03. Number of electric looomotiveas. . . . . . . . .
2-04. Number of other locomotives . . . . .. . . . ..
2-05. Total . . . .. . . . . . . . . . I ...
2-06. Number serviceable (not stored) . . . . . . . .
2-07. Number serviceable stored . . . . . . . . .
2-08. Number unserviceable . . . . . . . . ....
3. Locomotives assigned to road passenger service at close of month:
3-01. Number of steam locomotives ....... ..................
-02. Number of diesel-electric locomotives ..................
3-03. Number of electric locomotives. . . . . . . . .
3-04. Number of other locomotives . . . . . . . . .
3-0 Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3-. Number serviceable (not stored) . . . . . . . .
3-07. Number serviceable stored . . . . . . . . .
3-08. Number unserviceable. . . . . . . . . . .
4. Motorcars owned at close of month:
4-01. Number servioeable. . . . . . . . . . . .
4-02. Number unservioeable .... . . . . . . . . ..
4-03. Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5. Freight oars on line at close of month:
Home cars,
5-01. Number serviceable . . . . . . . . . .
5-02. Number unservioeable . . . . . . . . . .
5-03. Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Foreign cars,
5-04. Number serviceable . . . . . . . . . .
5-05. Number unservioeable ........ ....................
5-06. Total . . . . . . . . . . . . .
All cars (home and foreign),
5-07. Number serlviceable . . . . . . . . . .
5-08. Number unserviceable . . . . . . . . . .
5-09. Total . ....... ............................
6. Freight cars owned at close of month ....... ..................
7. Passenger-train cars owned at close of month:
7-01. Number aervloeable. . . . . . . . . . . .
7-02. Number unserviceable. . . . . . . . . . .
7-03. Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
AVERAGES

8. Percent unserviceable of total locomotives at close of month:
8-01. Locomotives assigned to yard switching service. . . . .
8-02. Locomotives assigned to road freight service. . . . .
8-03. Locomotives assigned to road passenger service. . . . .
9. Percent unserviceable of rail motor cars at close of month . . .
10. Percent unserviceable of freight cars on line at close of month:
10-01. Home oars . . . . . . . . . . . . .
10-02. Foreign cars. ........ ..........................
10-03. All cars (home and foreign) ....... ..................
11. Percent unserviceable of total railway-owned passenger-train oars. .
12. Miles per locomotive-day:
12-01. Serviceable road freight locomotives . . . . . ..
12-02. All road freight locomotives. . . . . . . . .
12-03. Serviceable road passenger locomotives. . . . . . .
12-04. All road passenger locomotives . . . . . . . ..
13. Miles per motor car-day:
13-01. Bervicable motorcars ................. . . . . . ...
13-02. All motorcars . . . . . . . . . . . .
14. Car-miles oer freight car-day:
14-01. Serviceable freight cars. . . . . . . . . .
14-02. All freight oars. . . . . . . . . . . .
1. Net ton-miles per freight car-day. . . . . . . . . .
lb. Percent freight oars on line of freight cars owned . . . . .
17. Percent home cars of total freight oars on line. . . . . . .


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UNITED STATES


1953



3 201
7 597
151
10
10 959
9 768
408
783

7 994
6 961
240
12
15 207
11 973
1195
2 039

1 564
1 831
258

3 653
2 892
293
468

2 38
181
2 566


785 654
86 374
872 028

078 522
9 006
087 528

864176
95 380
959556
781 643

31 039
2 710
33 749


4 359
7126
178
1 1
11674
10 120
554
1000

10 607
5797
252
8
16 664
12 492
1426
2 746

2 411
1662
270

4 343
3284
377
682

2 392
203
2 595


780 04 6
95 385
875 431

1104 597
8677
1 113 274

1 884 64 3
104 062
1 968 705
1770 658

32 309
2642
34 951


EASTERN DISTRICT


POCAHONTAS REGION


lASTERN UISIKRICT
INCLUDING
POCAHONTAS REGION


SOUTHERN REGION


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1953


1952


WESTERN DISTRICT


1952


ITEM No.


ii i i 4 i i i4i4i i- 4


1 338
3 585
133
6
5 062
4 539
128
395

2 611
2 375
171

5 157
3 980
362
815

819
750
240

1 809
1 356
170
2863

2 060
141
2 221


278 334
51 574
329 908

477 426
3 890
481 316

755 760
55 464
811 224
724 065

15 284
1 845
17 129


1745
3 483
157
6
5 391
4685
206
00

3 546
1957
183

5 686
4 124
481
1081

1193
672
253

2 118
1 573
173
372

2 080
153
2 233


271 010
59466
330 476

470 794
3 390
474 184

741 604
62 656
804 660
725 14 8

16 109
1 770
17 879


225
257


482
420
29
33

664
307
16

987
711
70
206

66
49


115
87
13
15

5
1
6


82 719
3 996
86 715

37 209
155
37 364

119 928
4 151
124 079
160 937

877
31
908


318
226


544
412
68
64

813
222
16

1051
686
128
237

103
46


149
99
31
19

6

6


1 563
3 842
133
6
5 544
4 959
157
428

3 275
2 682
187

6144
4 691
432
1 021

885
799
240

1 924
1 443
183
298

2 085
142
2 227


361 053
55 570
416 623

514 635
4 045
518 680

875 688
59 615
935 303
885 002

16 161
1 876
18 037


2 063
3 709
157
6
5 935
5 097
274
5 64

4 359
2 179
199

6 737
4 610
609
1318

1296
7163
253

2 267
1672
204
391

2 086
153
2 239


276
1 014


1 290
1 180
53
57

962
1 326


2 288
1 905
216
167

76
354


430
300
26
24

150
8
166


563
928


1491
1295
106
90

1 4 3
1 262

2 705
2 054
348
303

227
319


L46
390
71
8 j

15 8

166


1 362
2 741
16
4
4 125
3 629
1 90
-98

3 757
.3 9^3
953
12,
6 77s
5 377
547
U51

603
678
10

1 ;: 'i4\
1 o00y;
64
146

142
31
173


1733
2-489
21
5
4 24 8
3 72 8
174
346

4 705
2 456
5 3
3
7 2 2
5 628
469
1125

886
62 5
17

1 !,30
1 22.:l
102
206

14 8
42
190


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7.1
13.4
12.8
7.1

9.9
.8
4.9
8.0

133.7
105.4
285.2
228.7

98.6
91.6

46.4
44.2
950
110.0
44.5


8.6
16.5
15.7
7.8

10.9
.8
5.2
7.6

130.1
96.1
267.9
202.0

99.2
91.9

45.4
43.0
936
112.3
44.0


7.8
15.8
15.6
6.3

15.6
.8
6.8
10.8

130.6
101.2
226.0
170.8

94.6
88.6

35.6
33.1
736
112.0
40.7


9.3
19.0
17.6
6.9

18.0
.8
7.8
9.9

123.6
87.1
212.8
157.8

95.9
89.7

34.3
31.5
731
111.0
41.1


6.8
20.9
13.0
16.7

4.6
.4
3.3
3.4

122.4
87.9
263.1
197.9

122.4
102.0

47.8
46.2
1,313
77.1
69.9


11.8
22.5
12.8


5.1
.6
3.9
3.1

114.9
75.9
239.8
164.3

121.7
121.7

43.8
42.1
1,190
79.2
72.6


7.7
16.6
15.5
6.4

13.3
.8
6.4
10.4

129.3
99.1
228.3
172.5

94.6
88.6

37.3
34.9
814
105.7
44.5


9.5
19.6
17.2
6.8

15.2
.7
7.3
9.6

122.3
85.4
214.5
158.2

96.0
89.8

35.7
32.9
795
105.3
45.3


4.4
7.3
5.6
4.8

6.3
.9
3.3
6.3

117.6
97.7
307.6
272.1

102.6
98.3

45.3
43.9
954
97.4
45.0


6.0
11.2
15.6
4.8

7.2
.7
3.6
6.9

114.3
86.0
308.9
222.4

108.4
104.5

44.7
43.0
942
100.3
44.6


R-turnas for diesel electric and electric locomotives represent the number of locomotives, i.e. any combination of locomotive units operated under a single control at the close of each month.


7.2
12.6
11.2
17.9

6.9
.9
3.5
5.0

143.2
113.6
352.5
297.3

151.8
124.6

57.7
55.7
1,114
121.5
44.3


8.1
15.6
13.5
22.1

6.8
.9
.4
-.6
142.5
110.0
327.7
259.1

133.7
105.7

56.6
54.6
1,099
127.3
42.3


1-01
1-02
1-0o

1-08
2-01
2-02


2-07
2-08

2-01




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3-07
3-08

4-01
2-02
-03

2-0o
2-05








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5-03
2-089
























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3-01












7-02
7-03
3-0N

3 -06
3-07
3-08
4-01
4-02
4-03


5-01
5-02
5-03

5-011
5-05
5-01

P-07

g'-09

7-01
7-02
7-03


8-01
8-02
8-03
9

10-01
10-0?
10-03
11

12-01
12-02
12-oN
12-04

13-01
13-02

14-01
14-02
15
16
17


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MOTIVE POWER AND CAR EQUIPMENT OF CLASS I STEAM RAILWAYS IN THE UNITED STATES
Compiled from 158 reports representing 167 team railways
(CLASS I SWITCHING AND TERMINAL COMPANIES INCLUDED)
FOR EIGHT MONTHS ENDED WITH AUGUST 1953 AND 1952

EASTERN DISTRICT
UNITED STATES EASTERN DISTRICT POCAHONTAS REGION INCLUDING SOUTHERN REGION WESTERN DISTRICT
ITEM POCAHONTAS REGION ITEM No.
1953 1952 1953 1952 1953 1952 1953 1952 1953 1952 1953 1952 _____
AGGREGATES
1. Locomotives assigned to yard switching servios at lose of month:0
*-01. Number of team lOOOOtlves . . . . ................ 3 584 4859 1472 1965 250 348 1 722 2 313 378 692 1484 1854 1-01
1-02. Number of diesel-eleotrlc looootives. ... ........... 77462 6 861 3555 3376 250 214 3805 3590 1017 87 2 2 640 2399 1-02
1-0. N mber of electric looomotiesE . . . . . . .... 167 173 149 155 149 155 18 16 1-0
1-04. Number of other locomotives . ................... ..10 12 6 6 6 6 4 6 1-04
(. Total . . . . . ..... ............... 11223 11905 5182 5502 500 562 5682 6064 1395 1564 4146 4 277 1-02
1 Ntuberorlosable (not ;toredi . . . . 9 901 10 2 4 3 4 621 4735 411 448 5 032 518 3 1 251 1370 3 618 3690 1-0
1-07. Number soilceable stored . . . . . . . . . 465 547 130 223 46 47 176 270 76 81 213 196 1-07
1-08. Number unserviceable . . . . . . ..... ......... 857 1115 431 544 43 67 474 611 68 113 315 391 1-08
2. Looomotives assigned to road freight service at close of month: *
2-01. Number of steam locomotives . . . . . . . . 8701 11442 2856 3885 712 875 3568 4760 1099 1694 4034 4 988 2-01
2-02. Number of diesel-eleotric looomotives . . . . . .. 6700 5455 2301 1819 288 200 2589 2019 1288 1131 2823 2305 2-02
2-03. Number of electric locomotives . . . . . . . .241 258 171 188 16 16 187 204 54 5 4 2-0?
2-04 Number of other locomotives.....10 5 .. 10 5
2:-0. Totablo te lont . . . . . . : : : : 10 5 : - 10 5 2-04
2serNub ieerarlosable (not stored) . ................ . 11962 12754 4036 4309 695 761 4731 5070 1987 2213 5244 5471 2-0
2-07. Number serviceable stoed . ....... ................. 1464 1434 402 473 96 97 498 570 212 280 754 584 2-07
2-08. Number unserviceable ....... . . . . . . 2226 2972 890 1110 225 233 1115 1 343 188 332 923 1297 2-08
3. Locomotives assigned to road passenger service at close of month:%
3-01. Number of steam locomotives . . . . . . . ... 1824 2611 945 1257 76 110 1021 1367 114 245 689 999 3-01
-02. Number of diesel-electric locomotives.. . . . . . .1771 1581 719 614 48 42 767 656 341 326 663 599 -02
-04. Number of electric locomotivesl. . . . . . . . 262 268 245 250 245 250 17 18 6-
3-0 Number of other locomotives........ ...................-..
3-02. Total. .. . . . 3 857 4 460 1 909 12 1 124 152 2 033 2273 455 571 1 369 1616 -0
-06. Number servioeable (not stored . .......... 3017 3398 1426 1 5 9 8 94 107 1520 1 7 0 5 377 438 1120 1 2 5 -06
3-07. Number serviceable stored . . . . . . . . . 308 347 168 160 14 26 182 186 46 54 80 107 -07
4 -08. NMumbTr unervlceable.. ..le ..................... . 532 715 315 363 16 19 331 382 32 79 169 254 3-08
I Motorcars owned at closes of moit~hs
4 -01. Number servlceable.... . . . . . . . . .... 2408 2413 2097 2093 5 6 2102 2099 160 159 146 155 I4-01
4-02. Number uneerviceable. . . . . . . . . . . 172 186 129 140 1 130 140 6 7 36 39 4-02
4-03. Total .... . . . . . . . . . .. 2580 2599 2226 2233 6 6 2232 2239 166 166 182 194 4-03
5. Freight cars on line at lose of month:
Home cars,
M 01. Number serviceable . . . . . . . . . . 821558 773 983 297115 264207 92966 91153 390081 355 360 116329 106 363 315140 312260 5-01
02. Number unservioeable . . . . . . . . . 84 720 89 570 50 925 53 177 4 093 4889 55 018 58 066 6 824 8734 22 878 22 770 5-02
5-03. Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 906278 863553 348040 317 384 97059 96042 445099 413 426 123153 115097 338026 335030 5-03
or 4 ouab serviceable..b . . . . . . . . . . 1038132 1081 530 452 101 474 304 34 901 35 1 6 2 487 002 509 466 146401 152 454 404729 419610 5-04
5-0 Number unserviceable.. . . . . ... . 77429 8191 2985 3207 139 191 3124 3398 1087 1014 3218 3779 5-0
5-06. Total . . . . . . . . . . . ...... 1045561 1089 721 455086 477 511 35040 35 353 490126 512864 147488 153468 407947 423309 5-0
All care (home and foreign),
07. Number serviceable. . . . . . . . . . 1859690 1855513 749216 738511 127867 126315 877083 864826 262730 258817 719877 731870 5-07
-08Number unserviceable ..... .................... ... 92149 97761 53910 56384 4232 5080 58142 61464 7911 9 7 4 8 26096 26549 5-08
5-o09. Total... ........ .......................... 1951839 1953274 803126 794895 132099 131395 935225 926290 270641 268565 745973 758419 5-09
6. Fright car. owned at close of month . . . ................ . 1776404 1771629 724 345 727462 159 719 157657 884064 885119 267 134 262406 625 206 624 104 6
7. aSsnger-train oars owned at close of month:
7 -01. Number serviceable...... ...... . . . . . . .... 31247 32467 15408 16155 898 925 16306 17080 3979 4108 10962 11279 7-01
7-02. Number unserviceable.......... . . . . . 22758 2868 1849 1935 31 39 1880 1974 277 287 601 607 7-02
7-03. Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3400 5 35335 17 257 18090 929 964 18186 19054 4256 4 395 115 63 11 006 7-03
AVERAGES ---
8. Percent unserviceable of total locomotives at close of month:
8-01. Locomotives assigned to yard switching service. . . . 7.6 9.4 8.3 9.9 8.6 11.9 8.3 10.1 4.9 7.2 7.6 9.1 8-01
8-02. Locomotives assigned to road freight service. . . . . 14.2 17.3 16.7 18.8 22.1 21.4 17.6 19.2 7.9 11.8 13.3 17.6 6-02
8-03. Looomotivs assigned to road passenger servlce........ .. 13.8 16.0 16.5 17.1 12.9 12.5 16.3 16.8 7.0 13.8 12.3 15.7 --03
9. Percent unservioeable of rail motor care at close of month ...... 6.7 7.2 5.8 6.3 16.7 5.8 6.. 3.6 4.2 19.8 20.1 9
10. Percent unservloeable of freight cars on line at close of month: 6
10-01. RoMe oars . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.3 o10.4 14.6 16.8 4.2 5.1 12.4 14.0 5.5 7.6 6.8 6.8 10-01
10-02. Foreign oare. ........... ......................... .7 .8 .7 .7 .4 .5 .6 .7 .7 .7 .8 .9 10-02
10-03. All care (home and foreign) .... . .. . . . . 4... .7 5.0 6.7 7.1 3.2 3.9 6.2 6.6 2.9 3.6 3.5 3.5 10-03
11. Percent unserviceable of total railway-owned passenger-train oara. .. 8.1 8.1 10.7 10.7 3.3 4.0 10.3 10.4 6.5 6.5 5.2 5.1 1
12. Miles per looomotive-day:
12-01. Serviceable road freight locomotives . . . . . . 132.5 124.6 128.6 118.7 117.6 115.5 126.9 118.2 121.5 114.1 141.6 134.9 12-01
12-02. All road freight locomotives. ....... ..........100.8 92.6 97.4 86.8 80.4 80.6 94.7 85.8 101.2 89.3 107.3 100.4 12-02
12-03 serviceable road passenger locomotives. .............. .. 286.0 263.2 224.3 211.7 254.9 229.1 226.1 212.8 335.1 303.1 350.7 317.8 12-03
12-04. All road passenger locomotives .. . . . . . ... 223.7 200.5 167.5 159.5 193.2 161.2 169.1 159.6 277.6 232.5 286.9 246.8 12-0
13. Miles per motor car-day:
1-01. Servicable motorcars........ ....................... 97.5 95.0 94.3 91.5 143.5 120.2 94.4 91.6 99.6 101.0 139.3 134".9 13-01
13-02. All motorcars . . .... ........................ .. 91.0 88.2 88.8 85.8 119.6 120.2 88.9 85.9 96.0 96.8 111.7 107.8 13-02
14. Oar-miles per freight car-day:
14-01. Serviceable freight oars... ................... 45.7 44.2 35.4 33.9 42.3 46.0 36.4 35.7 46.7 47.0 56.6 53 14-Ol
14-02. All freight oars...... ....................... 43.5 42.0 33.0 31.5 40.9 44.2 34.1 33.3 45.3 45.2 54.6 51.4 14_-02
15. Net ton-amles per freight car-day . ....................... ..902 882 702 673 1.107 1.219 759 751 941 946 1,067 1,021 15
1. Percent freight cars on line of freight oars owned ..... ..........109.9 110.3 110.9 109.3 62.7 63.3 105.8 104.7 101.3 102.3 119.3 121.5 16
17. Percent home oare of total freight oars on line. . . . . . 1 46.4 44.2 43.3 39.9 73.5 73.1 47.6 44.6 45.5 42.9 45.3 44.2 17
0 Returns for diesel electric and electric locomotives represent the number of locomotives, i.e. any combination of locomotive units operated under a single control at the close of each month.
* Cumulative figure shown In this statement represent averages of the number of units of equipment reported at the close of each month within the cumulative period.
The averages are computed for each railway separately and then totaled. V' ** r, v 1 T ,IflNG WrII 210,