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(Source: Trains Magazine analysis by Bill Stephens, May 15, 2023)

Well, this isn’t a pretty picture. From 2013 to 2022 U.S. industrial production eked out 3% growth, overall economic output increased 57%, and truck tonnage grew 26%. Yet volume on the big four U.S. railroads increased by an average of just 2% for the decade — a figure that mercifully does not include coal traffic. What this tells you is that railroads are falling farther behind trucks and are becoming uncoupled from the economy.

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