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Railway Statistics of the United States of America 1916 Fourteenth Year
Railway Statistics of the United States of America 1916 Fourteenth Year by Slason Thompson
Soft cover stapled Missing cover? Title page is split along the folded area, read stains
124 pages
Two DECADES OF RAILWAY PROGRESS4
INTRODUCTORY 5
Railways and the war 5
Unification to cope with war traffic 5
Tremendous jump in traffic 6
Rise in expenses 6
When peace returns 7
Adamson Act, effect 8
Rate reductions 8
Decisions by I. C. C. members9-10
Income account, June 30, 1908, to '1710ff
World War, railways in15ff
Change in fiscal year 22
I. RAILWAY MILEAGE, DEC. 31, 1916 24
Report covers 250,233 miles 24
Mileage by states 25
Ratio mileage to area and population. 26
Mileage by territorial groups 27
Construction, 1916 and since 1893..28-29
Mileage of all tracks, 1890-1916 30
Switching and Terminal Co. miles 30
Trackage by territorial groups 31
U. S. vs. European mileage32-33
World's railway mileage33-36
II. EQUIPMENT 37
Inadequate and rush orders of no avail 37
Has lagged behind requirements 38
Capacity increase only salvation 38
Locos. and cars built, 1899-1916 38
Locomotives, number and capacity..39-41
Equipment, 1889-1901 41
Cars (pass. and freight), capacity ..42, 46
Steel passenger cars 42-43
Passenger train equipment 43
Cost of railway equipment 43-45
Cost of railway supplies 45
Equipment by territorial groups 45
Cars, freight, classes of, 1902-1916 46
Foreign railway equipment 47
Surpluses and unfilled requisitions of freight cars, 1907-1917 48
Safety appliances 49
Block signals 49
III. EMPLOYES AND COMPENSATION 50
Hours worked 50
Wages up, rates down 50
Number, pay and averages, 1916....51-52
Rise in wage rate 50, 53, 67
Number and pay, 1889-1916 54
Unremunerative expenditures 55
Average daily pay, 1892-1914 57
Ratio wages to revenue and expense 58
Foreign railway labor and pay59-61
Retail prices, 1890-1915 ... 62-63
Income Account of U. S. Railways-Condensed, 1889-1916 64-65
Cost of living 66
Wholesale prices, 1890-191567-68
Wholesale prices, 1916 and 1917 67
IV. CAPITALIZATION 69
406 out of 482 roads have no dividends 69
Capital, Dec. 31, 1916 69
Capital, June 30, 1916 70
Dividend fiction 70-71
Gross and net capital since 1889...71-72
Capital less than investment 72
Capital by territorial groups 73
New railway capital, 1916 74
Maturities of obligations 75
Foreign railway capital 76
V. COST OF CONSTRUCTION 78
Cost of road and equipment 78
Net investment (balance sheet) 79
Valuation, federal 80-81
Valuation, federal, cost of80, 121
Valuations, state, and taxation 81
VI. OWNERSHIP OF AMERICAN RAILWAYS 82
Number of stockholders 82
Distribution of securities 83
VII. PUBLIC SERVICE OF THE RAILWAYS 84
Passengers and freight, 1907-1916 85
Passenger service, 1888-1916 86
Cost of passenger per mile 87
Pullman Company returns, 1916 88
Mail and express receipts 89
Railway mail pay vs. postal revenues 89
Reduction in mail pay89-90
Mail pay vs. express receipts 90
Express Co. income, 1914-1916 91
Freight traffic, 1901.1916 92
Freight service, 1888-1916 93
Foreign ton mile rates 94
Commodities, proportions moved 95
High vs. low grade freight, 1901-1916 95
Commodity rates, selected 96
New South Wales rates 97
VIII. EARNINGS AND EXPENSES 98
Income account, 1916 99
Expenses wipe out gross increases100
Maintenance inadequate 100
Dividends paid from surplus 100
Distribution of transportation revenues 100-101
Rent, distribution of 102-103
IX. TAXES 105
Amounts and ratios, 1889-1916 105
Taxes by states in 1915106
X. DAMAGES AND INJURIES107
Payments for, 1915-1916107
Payments for, 1899-1916 108
XI. LOCOMOTIVE FUEL 109
Cost of, 1899-1916 109
Cost in 1917 109
XII. ACCIDENTS 110
Safety remarkable despite great traffic 110
312 roads with NO passengers killed in train accidents 110
13% year record of immunity111
Roads within ONE of immunity112
Accident summary, 1916118
Safety remarkable in 1916114-116, 117, 118
Fatalities, 1888-1916 115
Passenger traffic relation to fatalities, 1889-1916 117
Trainmen, decreasing hazard to 118
European railway accidents119
XIII. LEGISLATION AFFECTING RAILWAYS 120
Bills introduced and passed by states, 1911-1917 120
XIV. COST OF RAILWAY REGULATION. ...121
XV. STATISTICS OF FOREIGN RAILWAYS..122-123
XVI. GROWTH OF WORLD'S RAILWAYS.. .124
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