News Wire: Carloads, intermodal volumes pacing ahead of 2016

Trains Magazine General Discussion
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WASHINGTON — U.S. rail traffic continues to rebound from 2016 with nine of 10 commodity groups tracked by the Association of American Railroads tallying increases last week. The AAR report covering the week ending May 13 showed only petroleum …

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We are definitely seeing more traffic on the rails, the problem is some of the railroads are still in cut back mode when they need to be looking at ramping up, the closing of some of the hump operations is going to be a painful mistake.