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Table 4-2: Economic Characteristics of Freight Railroads: 2002

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empty Cell Class 1 Non-Class 1 Total
Number of railroads7545552
Freight revenue (billions $)34.12.836.9
Operating revenue (billions $)35.3NANA
Employees157,37219,688177,060

Key: NA = not available.

Source: Association of American Railroads, U.S. Freight Railroad Statistics, (Washington, DC: 2004), available at http://www.aar.org/PubCommon/Documents/AboutTheIndustry/Statistics.pdf as of August 24, 2004.

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