Industrial Railroads
Besides the common-carrier railroads that are well covered by government statistics there are many industrial railways (such as mining or lumbering railroads) whose statistics are covered separately, and which in 1981 had a total length almost equal to the length of the common carrier railroads. Currently (2008) they are only about half the length of the common-carrier system. In 1980, about two-thirds of their freight flowed to and from the common-carrier railroads while the remaining third was internal transport only on an industrial railroad. (For example, a lumber company uses its private industrial railroad to transport logs from a forest to its sawmill.) In 1981, there was 33.4 thousand kilometers of narrow gauge. About 4% of the industrial railroad traffic was on track jointly "owned" by two companies.
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