美国铁路工作1976年表现出极大的不稳定性和不均衡性。在上半年中完成了稍微超过1975年同期水平的运量,可是在三、四季度却大大减少了,尽管努力改善状况,而文化服务质量仍然不能令人满意,运输工作并没有多大起色。 1976年全铁路装车数为2360万车,比头年增长1.8％,而货物周转量则增长5.3％,达到 The U.S. railway work showed great instability and imbalance in 1976. In the first half of this year, a slight increase over the same period of 1975 was achieved. However, it was greatly reduced in the third and fourth quarters. Despite efforts to improve the situation and the quality of cultural services remained unsatisfactory, there was not much improvement in transport work. In 1976, the number of railways loaded was 23.6 million vehicles, an increase of 1.8% over the previous year while the volume of cargo traffic increased by 5.3% to reach