The 295 navigable rivers in the country have a length of 26,400 miles of navigable water.

About 2000 miles of canals are still in operation.

On the waterways some 27,000 American vessels are in use, with a capacity of 8,000,000 gross tons.[7] There are about 250,000 route miles of steam railroads, or with additional tracks, yard tracks, and sidings, a total of about 370,000 miles.

On these are over 63,000 locomotives, 52,000 passenger cars, and 2,400,000 freight and company cars.

Besides these are 45,000 track miles of electric railways and nearly 100,000 cars.