Annual Canadian Railway Equipment Inventory Summary for Regional Companies

Annual inventory data from Statistics Canada summarizing railway equipment in service for regional companies. The dataset includes totals for locomotives, freight cars, and passenger cars. It is available in XML, CSV, and HTML formats under the OGL-CA-2.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze regional railway fleet composition trends based on annual equipment totals.
• Model transportation infrastructure capacity based on locomotive and car inventory data.
• Benchmark regional railway company operations based on summarized equipment counts.

Strengths

• Data is provided by Statistics Canada, a national statistical office.
• Available in multiple machine-readable formats including CSV and XML.
• Licensed under the open OGL-CA-2.0 license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Statistics Canada

Collection Method

Annual railway industry survey.

Time Range

Annual

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-28 12:58:39.822556; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Canada