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TABLE 1-16 All Rail Freight Shipments: 2002

Monday, September 10, 2012

TABLE 1-16 All Rail Freight Shipments: 2002

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State Inbound Shipments Outbound Shipments
Texas 195,311 112,756
Illinois 179,651 116,462
Ohio 97,619 62,925
Florida 96,123 65,127
California 87,490 54,718
Georgia 80,214 36,259
Missouri 79,572 18,224
Wisconsin 78,487 18,612
Indiana 64,263 53,174
Pennsylvania 61,913 61,729
Virginia 60,491 48,137
Minnesota 58,720 69,156
North Carolina 58,348 13,399
Michigan 51,391 36,416
Alabama 50,422 43,208
Iowa 38,110 43,270
Kentucky 37,973 103,604
West Virginia 37,221 119,227
Washington 36,362 21,799
Tennessee 35,753 19,570
Oklahoma 34,345 21,510
South Carolina 34,316 15,162
Louisiana 30,373 38,240
Colorado 28,795 37,327
Arkansas 28,706 20,517
Kansas 27,694 21,960
Arizona 26,169 5,167
Maryland 24,652 7,741
New York 23,604 10,357
Oregon 23,514 15,346
New Jersey 22,586 10,843
Nebraska 19,446 23,068
Mississippi 18,646 13,959
Wyoming 16,312 379,977
Utah 13,798 23,253
Idaho 10,025 10,519
Massachusetts 9,819 2,599
North Dakota 9,611 21,638
Nevada 7,930 2,789
Alaska 7,451 7,451
Delaware 5,174 1,263
Montana 4,256 37,179
Maine 3,381 4,037
South Dakota 3,335 7,891
New Mexico 3,327 15,672
Connecticut 2,187 1,896
New Hampshire 1,609 762
Vermont 1,434 764
Rhode Island 674 209
District of Columbia 9 126
Hawaii 0 0
United States, total 1,928,612 1,876,993

NOTES: The original source of these data is the Rail Waybill Sample. Because the data are drawn from a survey, they are subject to sampling errors that could affect the estimates of shipment size and the relative positions of the states.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Innovative Technology Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, using data from Association of American Railroads, Railroads and States: 2002 (Washington, DC: 2004).