TRAFFIC STATISTICS
DESCRIPTION OF REVENUE FREIGHT MOVED IN 1943 (continued)
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NUMBER OF CARLOADS
COMMODITY
Decrease
Increase
1942
1943
PRODUCTS OF FORESTS
144
2,562
2,706
Logs
1,185
4,432
3,247
Posts, poles, and piling
25
135
160
Wood (fuel)
1,327
4,235
2,908
Ties, railroad
225
9,570
9,795
Pulp wood
8,618
102,687
94,069
Lumber, shingles, and lath
445
11,336
10,891
Box, crate, and cooperage materials
778
3,628
2,850
Veneer and built-up wood
8
2,124
2,116
Rosin
27
437
410
Turpentine
39
11,161
11,200
Products of forests, N. o. S.
12,949
155,615
142,666
Totals
1943
70,861
NUMBER OF TONS
(2,000 pounds)
1942 Increase
63,247 7,614
91,693
124,735
4,492
3,620
872
93,847
137,633
286,895
272,043
14,852
3,088,839
3,043,386
45,453
269,678
245,731
23,947
100,712
105,106
62,129
62,007
122
9,458
9,508
203,920
196,716
7,204
4,364,230
4,379,198
Decrease
33,042
43,786
4,394
50
14,968
11,359
138,398
149,757
10,643
115,933
126,576
3,833
21,228
25,061
448
2,864
3,312
3
1,533
1,530
24
2,429
2,405
1,275
4,064
5,339
968
12,194
11,226
529
4,594
4,065
1
1,768
1,769
3,316
19,494
16,178
4,043
25,814
21,771
595
5,875
5,280
1,576
3,227
1,651
4,012
35,313
39,325
168
15,241
15,073
9,178
196,467
187,289
13,981
59,039
73,020
26,000
64,727
38,727
577
2,836
2,259
4,651
21,484
16,833
753
1,862
1,109
2,071
16,705
14,634
796,043 790,828
MANUFACTURES AND MISCELLANEOUS
Petroleum oils, refined, and all other gasolines
Fuel, road, and petroleum residual oils, N. o. s.
Lubricating oils and greases
Petroleum products, N. o. s.
Cottonseed oil
Linseed oil
Vegetable oils, N. o. s.
Sugar (beet or cane)
Table sirups and edible molasses
Molasses, blackstrap and beet residual
Iron, pig
Iron and steel, rated 6th class in official
classification, N, O. S.
Rails, fastenings, frogs, and switches
Cast-iron pipe and fittings
Iron and steel pipe and fittings, N, o. s.
Iron and steel: nails and wire, not woven
Iron and steel, rated 5 th class in official
classification, N. o. s. (also tin and terne plate)
Machinery and boilers
Cement, natural or Portland (building)
Brick, common
Brick, N. o. S., and building tile
Artificial stone, N. o. s.
Lime, common (quick or slack)
Carried forward
N. O. S.—Not otherwise specified
4,423,103
4,236,462
637,045
98,032
44,540
67,970
161,132
493,921
138,169
82,533
911,430
1,240,886
269,003
45,175
1,353,088
473,044
7,750,440
1,429,312
1,757,853
107,782
717,271
43,642
566,509
3,916,830
3,787,459
485,163
72,513
42,422
68,008
114,903
474,723
146,135
81,806
1,031,319
1,380,165
280,612
81,317
1,113,896
442,226
7,381,525
1,076,473
2,827,409
125,244
831,905
56,788
506,317
506,273
449,003
151,882
25,519
2,118
46,229
19,198
727
239,192
30,818
368,915
352,839
38
7,966
119,889
139,279
11,609
36,142
1,069,556
17,462
114,634
13,146
60,192
28,321,653 27,340,207
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