16-18  Number of National Railway Passenger Coaches and Freight Cars Owned
Item	1985	1990	1995	2000	2003	2004
Passenger Coaches              (coach)	20872	27261	32404	35989	38972	39766
Soft Berth Coaches	679	1061	1537	2055	2621	3049
Hard Berth Coaches	2633	4351	7607	10139	11920	12550
Soft Seat Coaches	260	330	574	764	746	772
Hard Seat Coaches	13700	17503	18076	17571	17210	16965
Soft and Hard Seat Coaches	114	63	35	25	5
Dining Cars	1221	1520	1695	1847	1983	2058
Luggage and Post Cars	1498	1686	1949	2144	2226	2362
Business Cars	87	77	87	69	71	77
Others	680	670	844	1375	2190	1933
Freight Cars                   (coach)	300886	364966	432731	439943	503868	520101
Grouped by Type of Car
Covered Cars	52667	66668	80437	92569	95678	96107
Open Cars	185684	232999	268179	252977	308578	323970
Flat Cars	18753	18726	27461	24685	29115	29530
Hazardous Materials Cars		1229	1580	1578	2056	2056
Tank Cars	31837	33646	37119	37778	40495	40222
Refrigerator Cars	3991	5150	7030	7909	7696	7696
Others	7944	6548	10925	22447	20250	20250
Grouped by Capacity of Car
20 Tons and Under	1476	949	1458
25-40 Tons	21520	8699	8786	7765①	8525	8731
41-49  Tons						7589
50 Tons	104456	92442	48287	15799	3590	3538
51-59  Tons	16544	15500	27951		54452	54456
60 Tons	153198	238680	342086	307521	268063	267065
65 Tons	1571	6825	3546	103431②	159620	175111
73 Tons and Over	306	329	385	5427③	2029	3611
Others	1815	1542	232
Total Loading Capacity of Freight	1612.5	2055.3	2502.9	2619.9	3040.9	3147.0
Cars                    (10 000 tons)
Average Marked Loading Capacity per	53.9	56.6	57.9	59.6	60.4	60.5
Car                             (ton)
a) Statistics on freight cars are based on marked loading capacity of cars since 1997, resulting in the adjustment of grouping of cars. Data
marked ① refer to cars with a loading capacity of 20 tons and less, data marked ② refer to cars with a loading capacity of 61 tons,
and ③ refer to cars with a loading capacity of 70 tons and over. The same as in the following years.