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TRAFFIC STATISTICS

DESCRIPTION OF REVENUE FREIGHT
 

NUMB!

Increase
 

L OF carload:
 

COMMODITY
 

MANUFACTURES AND MISCELLANEOUS
(concluded)
 


 

1,742,620
 

1,670,125
 

Brought forward
 

1,383
 

4,503
 

3,120
 

Syrup and molasses, refined
 

488
 

1,787
 

2,275
 

Molasses, residual
 

606
 

11,169
 

10,563
 

Sugar
 

423
 

2,483
 

2,060
 

Candv and confectionety
 

9,314
 

76,972
 

67,658
 

Food products, N. 0. s., in cans and packages.
 

1,220
 

1,996
 

776
 

Food products, N. o. s., frozen
 

1,010
 

4,988
 

3,978
 

Starch
 

961
 

10,203
 

9,242
 

Soap and cleaning and washing compounds
 

320
 

1,155
 

835
 

Matches
 

3,102
 

70,436
 

67,334
 

Feed, animal and poultry, N. o. s.
 

35
 

373
 

338
 

Manufactured tobacco, n. o. s.
 

268
 

2,146
 

1,878
 

Cigarettes
 

1,763
 

33,086
 

34,849
 

Containers, metal
 

1,179
 

7,201
 

6,022
 

Containers, wooden
 

4,430
 

26,320
 

21,890
 

Containers, fibreboard, and paperboard, K. D
 

927
 

15,119
 

14,192
 

Containers, n, o. s.
 

2,636
 

14,932
 

12,296
 

Containers, returned emptv
 

5,718
 

64,287
 

70,005
 

Scrap iron and scrap steel
 

569
 

3,938
 

4,507
 

Iron and steel borings, turnings, etc.
 

391
 

7,871
 

8,262
 

Furnace slag
 

262
 

10,486
 

10,224
 

Waste materials for remelting, n. o. S.
 

1,055
 

12,168
 

11,113
 

Waste materials, n. o. s.
 

3,368
 

45,454
 

42,086
 

Manufactures and miscellaneous, n, o. S,
 

96,065
 

2,171,693
 

2,075,628
 

total
 

7,736
 

37,992
 

30,256
 

Forwarder traffic—Carioad
 

158,671
 

4,803,635
 

4,644,964
 

GRAND TOTAL, CARLOAD TRAFFIC
 

Al! L. C. L. freight

ND TOTAL, CARLOAD AND L. C   L.- TBAFF
 

NUMBER OF TONS (2,000 pounds)

Increase
 

44,997,277
 

46,854,940
 


 

104,601
 

150,816
 

46,215
 

108,540
 

82,496
 

26,044
 

463,804
 

488,056
 

24,252
 

52,588
 

63,573
 

10,985
 

1,879,154
 

2,130,918
 

251,764
 

18,378
 

44,803
 

26,425
 

127,068
 

160,569
 

33,501
 

239,076
 

268,428
 

29,352
 

13,934
 

19,073
 

5,139
 

2,092,872
 

2,196,084
 

103,212
 

7,264
 

8,319
 

1,055
 

48,318
 

54,774
 

6,456
 

327,573
 

322,816
 

4,757
 

65,366
 

77,730
 

12,364
 

387,479
 

457,198
 

69,719
 

136,213
 

152,987
 

16,774
 

173,583
 

217,727
 

44,1U
 

2,883,398
 

2,655,152
 

228,246
 

194,109
 

164,401
 

29,708
 

475,535
 

450,639
 

24,896
 

339,954
 

364,186
 

24,232
 

353,925
 

338,023
 

15,902
 

910,712
 

968,453
 

57,741
 

56,400,721
 

58,692,161
 

2,291,440
 

500,227
 

647,558
 

147,331
 

182,166,045
 

184,728,898
 

2,562,853
 

2,563,961
 

3,286,740
 

722,779
 

184,730,006
 

188,015,638
 

3,285,632
 

SUMMARY OF REVENUE FREIGHT
 

COMPARED WITH 1947, THE TONNAGE
 

Products of agriculture

.'Animals and products

Products of mines

Products of forests

Manufactures and miscellaneous

Forwarder traffic

Al! less than carload trafHc
 

Italics indicate decrease.
 

for ABSORBED SW
 

ITCHING, OVERCH
 

4RCES, ETC. OF ALL COMMODITIES, WERE:
 


 

Incre.tse
 


 

Increase
 

TONS
 

or
 


 

or
 

HANDLED
 

Decrease
 

REVENUE
 

Decrease
 

11,663,490
 

1,327,976
 

838,618,681
 

$2,049,193
 

2,451,853
 

330,798
 

27,349,378
 

1,372,718
 

106,774,056
 

1,691,786
 

153,200,823
 

17,068,169
 

4,375,698
 

157,094
 

14,492,669
 

1,706,995
 

56,400,721
 

2,291,440
 

297,208,646
 

42,282,252
 

500,227
 

147,331
 

9,699,814
 

38,108
 

2,563,961
 

722,779
 

45,965,556
 

705,395
 

184,730,006
 

3,285,632
 

$586,535,567
 

$63,735,824