March 23, 2023 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines, PSR
(Source: Railway Age, March 22, 2023) U.S. rail traffic for the week ending March 18 (Week 11) dipped 9.4% from the same week last year, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported March 22. U.S. Class I railroads hauled a total of 453,500 carloads and...
March 17, 2023 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines, PSR
(Source: Association of American Railroads press release, March 15, 2023) The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending March 11, 2023. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 458,629 carloads and intermodal...
March 16, 2023 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines, PSR
(Source: Railway Age, March 15, 2023) Through the first 10 weeks of 2023 (ending March 11), total North American carload and intermodal traffic dipped 2.9% from same point last year, according to the Association of American Railroads’ (AAR) March 15 report. Both...
March 10, 2023 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines, PSR
(Source: Railway Age, March 8, 2023) U.S. rail traffic for the week ending March 4, 2023 (Week 9) dipped 6.3% from the same week last year, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported Feb. 22. U.S. Class I railroads hauled a total of 474,191 carloads and...
March 6, 2023 | 2-man Crews, AAR Freight Trends, Derailment, East Palestine-NS, Headlines, NS, Railroad Safety
(Source: CNN, March 4, 2023) The nation’s major freight railroads have long desired to have only one crew member, a lone engineer, in the cab of their locomotives. And that desire hasn’t changed despite the derailment of a Norfolk Southern train on February 3 that...
March 6, 2023 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines, Railroad Safety
(Source: Common Dreams, March 3, 2023) A new analysis by the campaign finance watchdog OpenSecrets found that the rail industry has spent $653.5 million on federal lobbying over the past two decades as it has worked—often successfully—to fight off stricter safety...
March 3, 2023 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines, PSR
(Source: Railway Age, March 1, 2023) U.S rail traffic in February 2023 lagged the same month last year—down 5.2% or 101,452 carloads and intermodal units, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported March 1. This follows January’s 3.2% drop from the...
March 2, 2023 | AAR Freight Trends, Derailment, East Palestine-NS, Headlines
(Source: The Guardian, February 27, 2023) The PR push is a window into a years-long, multimillion-dollar campaign by America’s biggest railroad corporations to win favor among federal regulators and policymakers and push back against calls for tougher regulation – a...
February 16, 2023 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines, Railroad Security, Short Line
(Source: Railway Age, February 14, 2023) The Association of American Railroads (AAR) and the American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association (ASLRRA) “believe regulation is not required, particularly considering the extensive efforts of the industry to mitigate...
February 10, 2023 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines, PSR
(Source: Association of American Railroads press release, February 8, 2023) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending February 4, 2023. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 449,586...
