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Railway carriers, operating statistics

  1997 1998 1999 2000 2002
  $ thousands
Operating revenues 7,907,731 7,600,730 7,709,770 8,100,542 8,209,145
  Freight revenues 7,087,713 6,809,684 6,853,697 7,196,857 7,252,237
  Passenger revenues 199,069 207,557 225,410 247,338 287,473
  All other operating revenues 620,949 583,489 630,663 656,347 669,435
Operating expenses 6,716,073 6,923,106 6,721,203 6,421,478 6,616,972
  Ways and structures expenses 1,248,943 1,244,204 1,226,343 1,230,377 1,229,835
  Equipment expenses 1,563,335 1,430,834 1,392,708 1,420,580 1,396,080
  Rail operating expenses 2,537,280 2,394,139 2,411,776 2,676,069 2,715,601
  General expenses 1,366,515 1,853,928 1,690,376 1,094,452 1,275,456
           
Freight transported for fee, tonnes (thousands) 319,143 325,227 328,428 348,839 322,351
Freight transported for fee, tonnes-kilometres (millions) 306,198 298,797 297,504 319,769 320,556
Number of passengers transported for fee (thousands) 4,104 3,980 3,928 4,160 4,251
Passengers transported for fee, passenger-kilometres (thousands) 1,514,593 1,457,815 1,510,216 1,532,715 1,596,947
Total diesel oil consumed for all trains, litres (thousand) 2,199,848 2,090,615 1,935,867 1,988,219 2,018,720
Number of employees 46,479 45,304 43,260 40,983 37,246
Source: Statistics Canada, CANSIM, tables 404-0004,  404-0005,  404-0013,  404-0016 and  404-0019  and Catalogue no. 52-216-XIE .
Last modified: 2004-11-03.

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