February 7, 2020 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: Association of American Railroads press release, February 5, 2020) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending February 1, 2020, as well as volumes for January 2020. U.S. railroads...
February 5, 2020 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines, Positive Train Control
(Source: Transport Topics, February 4, 2020) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Implementation of automatic braking technology for freight railroads is nearly complete, an industry group indicated recently. As of 2019, 98.5% of positive train control, or PTC, technology was...
January 31, 2020 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: Association of American Railroads press release, January 29, 2020) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending January 25, 2020. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 485,282...
January 31, 2020 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: Freight Waves, January 30, 2020) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Year-to-date U.S. rail volumes remain lower than the same period in 2019 as Class I rail executives cautiously pin their expectations for volume growth to the second half of this year. U.S. rail traffic...
January 24, 2020 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: Association of American Railroads press release, January 22, 2020) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending January 18, 2020. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 499,732...
January 24, 2020 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: Freight Waves, January 23, 2020) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — The slump in U.S. rail volumes is persisting three weeks into the new year. U.S. rail traffic year-to-date totaled nearly 1.42 million carloads and intermodal units for the week ending Jan. 18, a 7.8% drop...
January 17, 2020 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: Freight Waves, January 16, 2020) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — U.S. rail traffic continued to inch downward for the first two weeks of 2020 amid trade tailwinds. Year-to-date U.S. rail volumes for the week ending Saturday totaled 915,638 carloads and intermodal units,...
January 17, 2020 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: Association of American Railroads press release, January 15, 2020) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending January 11, 2020. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 501,624...
January 16, 2020 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: S&P Global Platts, January 15, 2020) HOUSTON — US coal carloads were at 70,831 in the week ended January 11, up 1.5% from 69,757 a week earlier, but 18.6% lower than 87,228 in the year-ago week, the Association of American Railroads said Wednesday. Full...
January 10, 2020 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: Freight Waves, January 9, 2020) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — U.S. rail volumes kicked off the new year by continuing a months-long slump, with traffic down 5.1% compared with the same period a year ago. U.S. rail volumes totaled 414,014 carloads and intermodal units...
