TABLE 4-7 Average Loaded U.S. Railcar Weight for Selected Commodities: 1992 and 2002

Tons per carload

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NOTES: Miscellaneous mixed shipments is mostly intermodal traffic. Some intermodal traffic is included in commodity-specific categories, as well.

SOURCES: 2002 data-Association of American Railroads, Railroad Facts 2003 (Washington, DC: 2003), pp. 25 and 29. 1992 data-U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, calculations based on Association of American Railroads, Railroad Ten-Year Trends 1990-1999 (Washington, DC: 2000).