Evening star., 1936-12-27
B. & o. November Total Hits
$2,968,710, Compared to .
$1,872,149 Year Ago.
PENNSY AND CENTRAL.
ALSO DISCLOSE GAINS
II Months Profit Of $75,759,85
for Former Represents Rise of
$11,571,7S0 Over 1885.
By the Associated Press.


today its net operating revenue in
November increased to $2.968. 701,
compared with $l,872,14s in the same
month last year. Gross operating
revenue amounted to $l5,1l5,l08
compared with $ll,9S2,84s in Novem.
Der. 1885.
For the II months ended with No
vember, net operating revenue ex-
panded to $27.57 .953 from $22 2,20l..
800 in the corresponding period last
year. Gross operating revenues fol
the period totaled $154 .305 ,864. against
$3.50, ,061, 1885 in the first II months OF
1885.
Pennsylvania Railroad.
The Pennsylvania Railroad an.
nounced q net operating income for
November of $7,385,187. an increase
of $s41.142 over the preceding month
For the IL months ended November
30, the company announced a total
net operating income Of $75.759,856
an increase Of $11.571,7s0 over the
corresponding period last year.
New York Central.
Gross revenues of the New York
Central Railroad Co. for November
were $3l, ,883,252. an increase Of
$4,805,352 over the same month last
year. Net rail operating income. be-
fore fixed charges but after deprecia-
ton, totaled $5.027, los. an increase of
1888, 400 over November last year.
Freight operating revenue aggregated
$23. .256. 1886. against $19.403, 1913 in
1885, and passenger revenue Of $5,-
009,095, against $4,433,l10.
New York, New Haven.
The New York, New Haven & Hart
ford Railroad Co. reported that gross
revenues for November. 1896. were ST.
028. 1856, an increase of 1895, ,894 over
the same month last year. Net rail-
way operating income after expenses,
taxes, equipment and joint facility
rents was put at 81 ,272, ,72s, an increase
Of ss5s.s44.
Pere Marquette.
The Pere Marquette Railway Co.
announced its November income after
all fixed charges. was $370,012, COM
pared to 1904 ,240 in the comparable
period q year ago. The carriers in
come after fixed charges for the IL.
month period this year was $2,144, ,503,
compared to $1,250,504 for the cor
responding 1885 period. November
gross income this year was $2,891, ,655,
and the net railway operating income
$632,30l. Gross income for the H.
month period was $29, ,266, ,252 and the
net railway operating income $4.s92.-
727. The 11-month gross in 1885 was
$25. 5.797, ,025 and the net railway oper-
ating income $4,1s1 ,953.
st. Louis-San Francisco.
The st. Louis-San Francisco Rail-
way reported for November $6l6,266
in net operating income, an increase
Of $451 1854 over the figure for Novem-
Der, 1885. Total operating revenue
was $4.422,066, up $740,535 over the
corresponding 1885 month. For II
months net operating income ex-
panded $3,524,550 to $4,561, ,6s7 and
gross $6.933.805 to $45,770.655. COM
pared with the same period last year.
New Gains Foreseen.
NEW YORK, December rs (SpeciaD
The railroads of the country are cur
rently loading around 10000 to 130,-
600 carloads of revenue freight daily, il
we leave Sundays out of the reckoning.
A year ago the carloading rate was
hitting a daily level around and under
100000. That + Is an encouraging
showing, because It Is from freight
trafdc that the railroads money
comes.
A dozen or so years ago, passenger
traffic used to bring in about 81 out
Of every IS or $6 Of total gross rev.
enues. But nowadays freight brings
in more than 81 out of every SO Of
gross revenues, or, put the other way
around, passenger traffic accounts for
less than 81 out of every So Of total
operating revenue.
At the all-time peak Of freight move
ment over the rails, which was reached
10 years ago-in 1926-and not at the
time Of the well-remembered 1929 peak
In general business, there was one
week when the railroads loaded an
average of 201, ,480 freight cars . day.
on q six-day week basis. That was
in the week ended October rs, 1926.
At the low point of the depression
years, which for freight movement
came in the week ended December 28,
1882, the average number of freight
cars loaded per day fell to 67.550.
Even though they have registered
q big trafic gain from that low. the
roads still have some distance to 60
before recovering q satisfactory traf-
fic volume. It seems likely, however,
even If Industrial production slows
down to q 10-point gain in the general
index next year as against this years
15-point gain, that, by the Autumn Of
1887, freight trafic will be sufficiently
large to work up an average daily
loading Of 150, 900 cars or more.
(Copyrtght, 1885,