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 of December 2013 dollars).The data in black shows the number of rail transportation employees (right scale, th…

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