A Railroad Productivity Miracle (Musical Tribute)

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSITcoHCaaw7vSN_BOd3G5N3TV6TfcASmpXbJXddJDEgClaWskSt3BBcORakbVBW3sNiUa_l4aZVsF-E0UxZj2L5fNWBReyrU4Hl5y-SMOZWEglYIvSFrQXhCuTP6CmAuDJvEaG1PYXsg/s1600/Rail+Transportation.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSITcoHCaaw7vSN_BOd3G5N3TV6TfcASmpXbJXddJDEgClaWskSt3BBcORakbVBW3sNiUa_l4aZVsF-E0UxZj2L5fNWBReyrU4Hl5y-SMOZWEglYIvSFrQXhCuTP6CmAuDJvEaG1PYXsg/s320/Rail+Transportation.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Click to enlarge.</span><br /><br />The data in blue shows the annual inflation adjusted rail transportation corporate profits after tax (left scale, billions of December 2013 dollars).<br /><br />The data in black shows the number of rail transportation employees (right scale, thousands).<br /><br />It's almost like <b>each additional boxcar on a train does not require an additional worker</b>.<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/aHr9GHryMQc" width="420"></iframe><br /><br /><b>July 24, 2013</b><br /><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130724043521-213114599-daddy-what-was-a-truck-driver">Forget the Google Car. The Future is Robotic Trucks.</a><br /><br /><div style="color: #666666;"><i>Everyone seems rightly focused on the coming Google Car. But there are bigger changes lurking for a critical part of our transportation infrastructure: Trucks. And the 5.7 million Americans who drive them.</i></div><br /><b>Source Data:</b><br /><a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=rnL">St. Louis Fed: Custom Chart</a>

A Railroad Productivity Miracle (Musical Tribute)

Click to enlarge. The data in blue shows the annual inflation adjusted rail transportation corporate profits after tax (left scale, billions...

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