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US rail traffic falls off a cliff NEWSWIRE

By | April 15, 2020

AAR information shows Intermodal traffic dropped 20% and carloads plunged more than 23% for the week ended April 11

U.S. Rail Traffic1 Week 15, 2020 – Ended April 11, 2020 This Week Year-To-Date Cars vs 2019 Cumulative Avg/wk2 vs 2019 Total Carloads 198,726 -23.8% 3,402,688 226,846 -8.2% Chemicals 28,994 -10.4% 486,862 32,457 1.6% Coal 52,468 -36.1% 943,514 62,901 -18.5% Farm Products excl. Grain, and Food 14,295 -11.7% 235,737 15,716 0.7% Forest Products 9,234 -5.2% 145,758 9,717 -2.8% Grain 22,237 2.7% 304,078 20,272 -5.3% Metallic Ores and Metals 17,949 -25.0% 307,533 20,502 -3.2% Motor Vehicles and Parts 2,185 -87.7% 201,980 13,465 -18.0% Nonmetallic Minerals 31,651 -7.4% 441,951 29,463 -7.1% Petroleum and Petroleum Products 10,568 -21.1% 189,485 12,632 1.0% Other 9,145 -5.0% 145,790 9,719 5.3% Total Intermodal Units 213,777 -20.0% 3,610,246 240,683 -9.8% Total Traffic 412,503 -21.9% 7,012,934 467,529 -9.1% 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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