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Dear Reader: It would be an error had we mistranscribed the data we were provided, but we didn't. The data is true. There's no "supposedly" about the date at all: as stated in Trains, the count was taken on the date shown by the Illinois Commerce Commission, and it was taken in Chicago on the line segments described, not in another state. If you think the ICC made mistakes, that would be the place to start asking about it, not with us. Perhaps you are comparing apples and oranges. Your results are probably distilled from many brief observations (I assume you didn't religiously camp by the track for 24 hours a day for an entire week to obtain your results!). The ICC took a snapshot at one point in time for a 24-hour period, which tells one only about that moment in time. A different day would give different results, an average of a week would have been different yet, and an average of a year, different again. Different users prefer different data. From a railroad's point of view, picking a day to give a maximum train count might not be particularly meaningful as building a railroad to handle the worst-case scenario is very expensive. Or, picking a day that gave a maximum train count might be advantageous if you were trying to prove a case that someone else should pay for a grade crossing separation. You'd have to take it up with the ICC why they chose that day, and that day of the week. We were fortunate that they shared with us and the readers their data, and we're not in a position to tell them what to do.
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