AAR reports continued railroad traffic growth

The good news for America's railroads as traffic continued year over year growth according the weekly AAR report.

The Association of American Railroads (AAR.org) yesterday reported that freight traffic continues to register gains with U.S. railroads originating 296,980 carloads, up 8.2 percent compared with the same week last year, for the week ending Feb. 19, 2011.

Intermodal volume for the week was also up, totaling 233,993 trailers and containers, up 16.9 percent compared with the same week in 2010.

Sixteen of the 20 carload commodity groups posted increases from the comparable week in 2010. Those groups posting significant increases in loadings included: metallic ores, up 77.6; stone, clay and glass products, up 20.2 percent; nonmetallic minerals, up 18.9 percent; coke, up 17.8 percent, and motor vehicles and equipment, up 16.3 percent. Those commodity groups reporting a drop in weekly traffic saw only single digit declines: grain mill products, down 9 percent; waste and nonferrous scrap, down 7.2 percent, and primary forest products, down 0.8 percent.

Weekly carload volume on Eastern railroads was up 12.7 percent compared with last year. In the West, weekly carload volume was up 5.4 percent compared with the same week in 2010.

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Combined North American rail volume for the first seven weeks of 2011 on 13 reporting U.S., Canadian and Mexican railroads totaled 2,569,089 carloads, up 5.1 percent compared with the same point last year, and 1,891,676 trailers and containers, up 8.4 percent compared with last year.

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