Free press., 1906-10-27
WORK OF THE. YEAR
STATISTICAL REPORT AS TIC
coUNTRYS RAILWAYS.
Total Mileage Shows Enormous In
crease-Laree Additions to Loco
motives and Cars in the Serv-
ice-The Salary List.

An abstract based on summaries in
cluded in the eighteenth annual sta
tistical report of the interstate COM
merce commission for the year ending
June 30, 1905, has been issued by the
commission giving the mileage and
capitalization of railroads and treat
ing of equipment, employees, capital
ization Of railway property, public
service of railways, earnings and ex-
penses and railwaT accidents.
The report shows that the total
single track railway mileage June 80,
1905, was S,101.04 miles, an increase
of 4.196.7O over the previous year. The
aggregate length of mileage, including
tracks of all kinds. was 3O6. 1864
miles. These figures show increase
of 9,723.40 miles in the aggregate
length of track of all kinds, of which
35.4S per cent. was extension of yard
track and sidings. The report repre-
sents 2,167 corporations.
On June so, 1905, 4S,357 locomotives
were in service, an increase of 1,614
OF this number 27.S69 were freight en-
gineS. Cars of all classes in service
numbered 1,S42.S71, an increase of
44,31O. This census does not include
cars of private corporations. OF this
number 1,731. 400 were freight cars
and 70,749 were in company serv-
ice.
Or the total of locomotives and cars
in service. 1,641. .395 were fitted with
train brakes, an increase of S5,623.
OF the total, 1871, $50 were fitted with
automatic couplers, an increase of
4S,560. Passenger service stock was
nearly all equipped with train brakes,
and all but 80 locomotives had auto
matte couplers. Nearly all of the
freight locomotives had train brakes
and automatic couplers. and a large
proportion of the cars in the service
were equipped with train brakes and
automatic couplers.
The immensity of the wage propo-
sition in the railway service is shown
by the fact that an average of 637 en-
ployes were on the rolls for every 100
miles of line, total of 1891
which is an increase of SCOTS. OF the
total, 54,S17 were engineaen, 57.S92
flremen, 41,061 conductors. III, ,405
other trainmen. and 45.532 switch
1888, ,944,6SO.
On June 80, 1905, the par value of
the amount of railway capital out
standing was $3,S05,25S, ,121. or cap
italization of $G5,926 per mile for the
railways in the United States.
The number of passengers carried
by the railways in the year was 1885,
1867. an increase of 23,414.9S5 The
passenger mileage was 23,S00, LAO, ,436,
the increase being 1,S76, 1876, 900 pas
senger miles.
The number of tons of freight re-
ported as carried was 1,427,731, ,905,
which exceeds the tonnage of 1904 by
III, 1872. .74O tons.
The gross earnings from the opera
ton of 216,973.61 miles of line were
$2,0S2, ,4S2, ,406, being $107 7,30S,31 great
er than for the year 1904. Their oper-
ating expenses were 1880. .6O2, ,152, or
$51, ,705, ,S99 more than in 1904
Operating expences averaged $6,4O9 |
per mile of line, an increase of $1O1 |
per mile in comparison with the year
1904.
The net earnings OF the railways |
amounted to $691, ,SSO,254. This amount |
SAcSSUS InS corresponding one IOr the |
previous year by 55.602.416.
The total number of casualties 10 |
persons on the railways for the year
was 95,711, of which 9,7O3 represented |
persons killed and S6,O0S injured. Cas- |
ualties occurred among three general |
classes of railway employees as fol- |
lows: Trainmen, 1890 killed and 29,-
S53 injured; switch tenders, crossing
There were 341 passengers killed and |
tend ers and watchmen, 136 killed, SS3
injured; other employees, 1895 killed, |
36,097 injured.
The number of passengers killed in
1905 was 537 and the number injured |
10,457. In the previous year AL pas
sengers were killed and Gill injured.
There were S41 passengers killed and
G, ,e53 injured because of collisions and
The total number of per-
sons other than employees and passeu-
gers killed was 5,S05; injured, S,71S.
These figures include the casualties to
persons trespassing, of whom 1855
were killed and 5,251 were injured.
The total number of casualties to per-
sons other than employees from being
struck by trains, locomotives or cars
was 4 ,569 killed and 1853 injured. One
trainman was killed for every 133 en-
ployed, and 1 was injured for every 9
employed.