How to Analyze Railroad Reports Author:John Moody General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1912 Original Publisher: Analyses publishing co. Subjects: Railroads History / General Transportation / Railroads / General Transportation / Railroads / History Transportation / Railroads / Pictorial Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It ha... more »s no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: IV The Location of the Railroad The three chief elements to be studied in analyzing railroad reports are the Physical Factors, the Income Factors, and the financial or Capitalization Factors. The physical factors or characteristics embrace everything of a physical nature, such as the mileage and location of the road, the equipment owned and used by the road, the character of tonnage transported on the railroad, the methods of handling the tonnage and passengers on the railroad, the efficiency of operation of the trains of the railroad, and the average rates received per person and per ton for transportation services performed by the railroad. Every railroad report embraces figures which to more or less extent showvthese physical characteristics. Moreover, each railroad in the United States doing an interstate business is required to file full, complete and uniform records of its entire business, physical, operating and financial, with the Interstate Commerce Commission. But independently of the requirements of the Commission most of the railroads furnish their stockholders with quite complete figures covering the physical sides of their properties. Usually the railroad report beginswith a statement, in condensed form, of the mileage operated. This statement of "mileage operated" indicates the average number of miles of main track operated within a single year, as well as the total at the end of the yea...« less