Figure 13-8
Average Loaded U.S. Railcar Weight for Selected Commodities: 1993 and 2003

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

SOURCES: 2003—AAR, Railroad Facts 2004 (Washington, DC: 2004), pp. 25 and 29. 1993—U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Innovative Technology Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, calculations based on AAR, Railroad Ten-Year Trends 1990–1999 (Washngton, DC: 2000).