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Dec. 31, 2013
Future Minimum Operating Lease Revenue [Abstract] |
Schedule of Future Minimum Rental Receipts [Table Text Block] | Consolidated Anticipated Future Receipts The following is a summary of the consolidated anticipated future receipts of the minimum lease payments receivable under the financing and operating method on a consolidated basis at December 31, 2013:
Year |  | Amount
|  | (in millions)
2014 |  | $ | 434 |
2015 |  | 353 |
2016 |  | 311 |
2017 |  | 264 |
2018 |  | 189 |
Thereafter |  | 216 |
|  | $ | 1,767 |

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