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News & Reviews News Wire AAR: US train traffic continues double-digit dive NEWSWIRE

AAR: US train traffic continues double-digit dive NEWSWIRE

By | April 9, 2020

Coal, grain traffic show minor increases.

U.S. Rail Traffic1 Week 13, 2020 – Ended March 28, 2020 This Week Year-To-Date Cars vs 2019 Cumulative Avg/wk2 vs 2019 Total Carloads 219,844 -9.1% 2,993,051 230,235 -6.3% Chemicals 32,706 -3.2% 427,594 32,892 3.1% Coal 60,983 0.1% 833,542 64,119 -16.7% Farm Products excl. Grain, and Food 16,027 2.2% 206,011 15,847 2.1% Forest Products 9,694 -3.6% 126,608 9,739 -2.9% Grain 22,212 -1.6% 260,986 20,076 -6.0% Metallic Ores and Metals 20,875 -10.4% 268,111 20,624 -1.3% Motor Vehicles and Parts 5,423 -69.5% 196,624 15,125 -6.8% Nonmetallic Minerals 31,159 -9.7% 378,773 29,136 -6.6% Petroleum and Petroleum Products 11,220 -11.4% 168,493 12,961 3.6% Other 9,545 -9.7% 126,309 9,716 5.4% Total Intermodal Units 229,923 -14.2% 3,178,285 244,483 -8.6% Total Traffic 449,767 -11.8% 6,171,336 474,718 -7.5% 1 Excludes U.S. operations of Canadian Pacific, CN and GMXT. 2 Average per week figures may not sum to totals as a result of independent rounding.

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