TABLE 14.-TRAIN ACCIDENTS. AND DAMAGE TO RAILROAD PROPERTY 1930-56

Source: Interstate Commerce Commission Accident Bulletin No. 125, 1956, table No. 40, p. 10.

TABLE 15.-NUMBER OF TRAIN ACCIDENTS BY GENERAL CAUSES, ALL U.S. RAILROADS, 1958-60

Source: Interstate Commerce Commission Accident Bulletin Nos. 127-129, table No. 26.

Source of Basic Data: Interstate Commerce Commission, Accident
Bulletin, Nos. 130-134, and Statement M-300; Department of
Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration.

TABLE 17.-NUMBER OF TRAIN ACCIDENTS RESULTING FROM DEFECTS IN OR IMPROPER MAINTENANCE OF WAY AND STRUCTURE, ALL OF U.S. RAILROADS, 1961-66

Source: Interstate Commerce Commission, Accident Bulletin, Nos. 130 to 134; Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration.

1961.

1962.

1963.

1964.

1965

1966 2

Year

TABLE 18.-TRAIN ACCIDENTS CAUSED BY DEFECTS IN EQUIPMENT, 1961-66

Source of Basic Data: Interstate Commerce Commission, Accident
Bulletin, Nos. 130-134, and Statement M-300; Department of
Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration.

TABLE 19.-NUMBER OF TRAIN ACCIDENTS RESULTING FROM DEFECTS IN OR FAILURES OF EQUIPMENT, ALL

Source: Interstate Commerce Commission Accident Bulletin Nos. 130-134; Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration.

1961.

1962

1963.

1964.

1965.

1966 3

TABLE 20.-TRAIN ACCIDENTS CAUSED BY EMPLOYEE ERROR AND OTHER FACTORS, 1961-66

1 All causes other than equipment defects, roadway defects, and employee error. Rate per million locomotive and motor train-miles.

* Preliminary.

Source of Basic Data: Interstate Commerce Commission, Accident
Bulletin, Nos. 130-134, and Statement M-300; Department of
Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration.

Source of basic data: Interstate Commerce Commission, Statement M-400, Statement M-300, and Transport Statistics in the United States.

TABLE 22. NUMBER OF TRAIN ACCIDENTS RESULTING FROM EMPLOYEE ERROR, ALL U.S. RAILROADS, 1961-66

Source: Interstate Commerce Commission Accident Bulletins Nos. 130-134; Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration.

TABLE 23.-UNIT WAGE COST, MAINTENANCE OF WAY AND MAINTENANCE OF EQUIPMENT EMPLOYEES, CLASS 1 LINE-HAUL RAILROADS, 1961-67 MAINTENANCE OF WAY EMPLOYEES

Source of basic data: Interstate Commerce Commission, Transport Statistics in the United States, statement 0-210 and statement A-300.

TABLE 24.-CHARGEOUT PRICES OF RAILROAD MATERIALS AND SUPPLIES EXCLUDING FUEL, CLASS I LINE-HAUL RAILROADS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1961-67

Source: Association of American Railroads, Indexes of Railroad Material Prices and Wage Rates, Mar. 1, 1968.