For the holiday week North American carloads were up 9.4 % and intermodal up 10.5 % from 2013. Canada had even higher increases with no holiday. Decided to compare with the holiday week with the week before and carloads down 11% and intermodal down 9 %. For one less business day th2014 week might have been 20 % lower ? Appears that RRs had a lot more traffic than one would expect. ? This week may have very high numbers ?.
This poster thought that the holiday week would allow some catch up on freight RRs but did that happen ? This increase most certainly is not linear over the whole RR systems which may continue the gridlock on certain lines ?