United States yearbook - 1940 (1)

ELECTRIC RAILWAYS' 451
N o . SO B .— E l e c t r i c R a il w a y s — In c o m e A c c o u n t o p O p e r a t i n g C o m ­
p a n i e s : 1922 t o 1937
N ote.—See hefld n o te, table 602.
[All figures except percentages in thousands of dollars]
ALL COMPANIES
SURFACE LINES
1922 1927 1932 1037 1932 1937
Gross operating revenue.................................. 1,009,747 921,230 996,309 864,016 877,189 778,108
Ballwav operations. ___ _____________ 926,477 918,869 1566,290 513,129 447,189 427,221
Transportation, total.................-........... 895.019 882.631 639,661 497,079 (*) 416,707
Passenger................................................ 864,663 834,601 518,060 471,065 408,431 391,918
All other ............................................ 40,367 47,930 21,601 26,015 CO 24,849
M iscellaneous......................................... 30,458 36.338 26,629 16,049 (•) 10,454
Auxiliary operations3............ ..................... 84,269 2,361 430,019 350,887 430,019 350,887
Operating expenses, total...._____________ 720,828 687,933 680,581 643,360 601,857 585,824
Railway operating expenses........................ 078,503 636.638 *442,607 406,119 363,883 348,583
W ay and structures................................ 102,003 06,285 61,000 60,610 48,674 51.510
Equipm ent..................... . ........................ 87,237 92,865 55,921 52,267 43,993 43,513
Power......................................................... 107,246 98,602 70,647 61,119 56,420 49,464
Conducting transportation...................... 280,690 294,322 186,615 173,516 154,633 150,665
All other................................................. 96,388 104,664 68,524 58,707 60,163 53,401
Auxiliary operations *....... -........................ 42,200 1,295 237,974 237,242 237,974 237,242
Ratio of expenses to revenue (percent) ........ 71.4 74,7 68.3 74.5 68.6 75.3
Net operating revenue__________________ 288,924 233,297 316,728 220,656 276,331 192,284
Taxes— ___________ __________________ 64.788 57,809 40,670 40,400 33,416 32,965
Operating income______________________ 224,136 17S, 488 276,068 180,255 241,915 159,319
1Figures for 1632 not strictly comparable with those for 1637 because of the inclusion for 1832, and the
exclusion for 1837 of a small amount of data for trolley-bus operations.
3 N ot available.
> Represents principally the operations of such utilities as light, power, gas, heat, aiid water, except for
1927, when only the incidental sales of such service areincluded. Does not include motorbus or trolley-bus
operations of street railways.
Source: Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census: Census of Electrical Industries, report on Street
Railways and Trolley-Bus and Motorbus Operations.
N o . 5 0 6 .— E l e c t r ic R a il w a y s— R e c e iv e r s h ip s a n d T r u s t e e s h ip s : 1910
t o 1939
RECEIVERSHIPS OR TRUSTEESHIPS
INSTITUTED
TERMINATEP UNDER FORECLOSURE
YEAR
Number
of Miles Outstanding securities
Receivers’
oer-
tificates
panics track Stock Bonds
Miles
of
track
Outstanding securities
Stock
Bonds
Number
of
companies
Dollars Dollars
Dollars Dollars Dollar,
1910___________ 11 607 12,629,400 75,490,736 22 724 19,106,613 26.374,075 0 )
1 9 1 4 ,................... 10 362 36.562.560 19.050.460 11 181 26,230,700 44,004,241 0
1915___________ 27 1,163 40,667,950 39,030,100 19 308 30,608,817 16,759,907 «
1016...................... 15 350 14,119,168 11, 434, 708 10 430 13.895. 400 22,702, 300 (!)
1917...................... 21 1,288 38,597,305 33,344,800 25 745 27,281; 900 27,313, 045
1918...................... 29 2,105 92.270, 779 172,015,103 23 524 37, 740, 325 20,149, 384
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1919...................... 61 3,866 200,424,110 306,760,151 29 2, G75 89.893, 400 79,835, 738 42,300
1920...................... 19 1,056 86,467,105 07,755,860 13 260 7,782,400 11,227, 328 52,000
1921...................... 18 954 31,714,450 34.252,550 13 778 33,642,255 30,863,626 5 ,000
1022, ................... 14 702 17,566,050 26,100,800 13 323 7 ,4 9 1 ,5 0 0 12,640,600 14,683
1 9 2 3 .. ........... 12 333 0,700,100 13.255.300 16 927 118.077.959 110,638,250 12.2 6 6 ,0 0 0
1924___________ 13 1,164 30,365,585 40,200,356 14 869 21,022,800 34,845,535 3 ,4 4 0 ,3 8 8
1926___________ 13 1,129 36,291,045 48,632,084 13 569 18,074,300 18,320,555 53,000
1926 .................... 16 1,281 16,871,390 117,743,311 38 1,291 20,054,700 57,340,303 214,0 0 0
1927..................... 12 567 16,865,523 20,292,816 16 941 53.345.000 78.445,100 3 ,1 4 0 ,0 0 0
1928...................... 8 390 -8 ,4 6 7 ,2 0 0 . 16,014,400 8 1,004 26,084,325 40,683,400 168,160
1929...................... 5 500 39,035,000 35.373,900 10 510 18.472.995 21,173,700 285,359
man 15 1,765 79,647,700 97,442,081 8 1,055 36,254,965 44,504,000
1 9 3 1 .- ................. 16 1,525 40, 782,9 2 2 4 5 ,155,3 8 8 12 845 38.206.600 19,760,600 50,000
1982 20 1,032 176,333,850 392, 719, 308 6 847 10,085,000 12,609,800
1933...................... 10 1,736 30,773,300 119, 298,196 8 406 0,675,405 16,846,700 7,500
1934 5 246 3,887,600 7,217,100 6 329 13,086,100 19,663,000
1936 ____ 11 a 930 42,081, 037 70,371,343 10 «801 82,617,800 91, 512, 071
103ft 6 a 167 6, 241, 625 25,088, 500 12 . J 882 34,065,637 29,742,516
1037 2 s 111 4,603,520 3,025,000 4 3 138 2,402,400 25,402, 420
1938....................... 5 s 669 38,405,700 60,188,000 10 3 633 17,478,260 14,382,473 480,000
1889....................... 2 3 272 3,811,200 6,231,200 8 3 660 30,124,000 78,827,729
1 N ot available.
J Mileage of bus routes: 1636, 1,469 miles; 1936,39 miles; 1937,39 miles; 1938,226 miles; 1039,110 miles. Not
available for years prior to 1935. „ „„ , _ „
3 Mileage of bus routes: 1936, 234 miles; 1936, 556 miles; 1937,12 miles; 1938,186 miles; 1939, 1,320 miles.
N ot available for years prior to 1935.
Source: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. Inc., New York, N. Y.; Transit Journal, Annual Statistical Number.