(Source: Railway Age, May 4, 2022)
NEW YORK — “U.S. rail traffic in April had something for everyone,” Association of American Railroads (AAR) Senior Vice President John T. Gray reported on May 4. “Optimists can point to autos, chemicals and scrap, all of which had solid gains [over the same period last year]. Pessimists can point to grain, intermodal and petroleum products, which saw significant declines.” Total U.S. weekly rail traffic for the week ending April 20, 2022, was 506,699 carloads and intermodal units, a decrease of 6.3% from the same week in 2021. This is the tenth consecutive week that traffic has declined.
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