New measures such as speeding up the turnaround times have added some 24% to freight revenues.
During 2003, the company earned $3.5 billion (Canadian dollars) in freight revenue.
The expected freight revenues never emerged, and operations on the Garfield branch ended in 1930.
Based upon freight revenues alone they could not afford to pay for upgrades and improvements now necessary.
The labor savings and the additional freight revenues from the increased cargo space resulted in a net gain of $25,000 income per trip.
In 2006, the freight revenue increased 5.2% to RM113.0 million.
Earnings in 1929 exceeded $1 million, mostly from freight revenue.
Delta was the site of slate quarries which provided significant freight revenue for the railroads.
In domestic wagonload traffic, freight revenues dropped by 9%.
By far the most significant commodity was lumber, accounting for 64% of the line's freight revenue in 1902.