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<p>The production, location of manufacture, and installation of rails (by ton of each rail section and other pertinent details) is collected annually in various forms by railroads, steel industry trade associations, and the government. This information might be on line, somewhere, but there's no catalog of the internet and Google is almost worthless for common-word search terms like "rail, U.S., and imports." For relief of frustration a good university library with open stacks has all this available at your fingertips. </p><p>Where I would start is the <em>Annual Statistical Report </em>of the American Iron & Steel Institute, which tracks back to 1873, and Edwin Frickey, <em>Production in the United States, 1860-1914,</em> Harvard University Press, 1947. These sources give detailed statistics on the total production of steel and iron rail in the U.S., from which I could derive the imported quantity by subtracting the total consumption from the <em>Statistical Abstract of the United States </em>published by the U.S. Census Bureau every decade.<em> </em> Export and import records maintained by the Department of Commerce, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and other agencies can show where rail came from by port of origin, and the AISI statistics might too. </p><p>The <font color="#000000"><em>Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970 </em>lists U.S. rail production from 1876 to 1970: output rose from 880,000 tons in 1876 to 1,793,000 on 1886, 2,672,000 in 1900, to 4,072,000 in 1910. Other sources on my bookshelves indicate the preponderance of imported rail came from England and imports went to nil during the 1870s, a statement which the <em>Historical Statistics </em>would tend to support, but there's no citations for that information so I have no way of assessing its veracity.</font></p><p>S. Hadid</p><p> </p>
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