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Railway carriers, operating statistics

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Railway carriers, operating statistics
($ thousands)
  2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
  $ thousands
Operating revenues 9,822,719 10,397,092 10,521,084 10,995,438 9,409,503
Freight revenues 8,759,673 9,343,789 9,435,676 9,880,164 8,347,368
Passenger revenues 282,881 294,529 291,784 304,066 271,099
All other operating revenues 780,165 758,773 793,625 811,207 791,036
Operating expenses 7,507,439 7,788,216 7,989,357 8,628,547 7,782,714
Ways and structures expenses 1,311,510 1,340,936 1,459,704 1,592,469 1,494,199
Equipment expenses 1,440,876 1,466,059 1,507,953 1,441,127 1,395,412
Rail operating expenses 3,217,842 3,386,015 3,622,544 4,215,936 3,062,354
General expenses 1,537,211 1,595,206 1,399,156 1,379,014 1,830,749
  $ thousands
Freight transported for fee, tonnes (thousands) 369,943 357,197 356,351 330,067 278,312
Freight transported for fee, tonnes-kilometres (millions) 352,140 352,477 358,832 340,092 299,646
Number of passengers transported for fee (thousands) 4,269 4,243 4,336 4,753 4,373
Passengers transported for fee, passenger-kilometres (thousands) 1,478,454 1,450,481 1,453,005 1,574,293 1,413,352
Total diesel oil consumed for all trains, litres (thousand) 2,130,224 2,119,082 2,193,684 2,078,060 1,770,060
Number of employees 34,995 34,062 34,281 34,425 31,688

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