Carloads

Rail carloads, at 224,620, fell 1.7% annually, and intermodal containers and trailer volume, at 294,284 units, decreased 1.2% annually.

Rail carloads, at 228,823, rose 1.7% annually, and intermodal containers and trailers, at 280,176 units, fell 5.4% annually.

The November FRI was down 0.4% from October to November, falling for the seventh time in the last eight months, and it was off 4.4% annually, due largely to an intermodal slowdown in recent months, noted the report.

Rail carloads, at 197,955, increased 4.3% annually, and intermodal containers and trailers, at 234,860 units, fell 6.5% annually.

In a speech at last week’s RailTrends conference in New York, Union Pacific Railroad CEO Jim Vena made the case for Union Pacific’s historic proposed $85 billion merger with Norfolk Southern, in advance of the company submitting its merger application to the Surface Transportation Board.

Rail carloads, at 224,651, were up 0.1% annually, and intermodal containers and trailers, at 268,842 units, were off 8.7% annually.

Rail carloads, at 227,209, were down 0.7% annually, and intermodal containers and trailers, at 269,719 units, fell 6.4% annually.

Rail carloads, at 226,748, fell 0.9% annually, and intermodal containers and trailers, at 272,940 units, were off 6.1% annually.

Rail carloads, at 224,244, eked out a 0.3% annual increase, and intermodal containers and trailers, at 273,610 units, fell 4.8% annually.

U.S. rail carloads, at 224,972, eked out a 0.002% annual increase, and intermodal containers and trailers, at 278,566 units, rose 6.7% annually.

Rail carloads, at 228,903, eked out a 0.9% annual increase, and intermodal containers and trailers, at 283,739 units, headed up 1.1%.

Rail carloads, at 228,609, fell 1.8% annually, and intermodal containers and trailers, at 282,068 units, were off 2.5% annually.

U.S. rail carloads, at 231,237, were off 0.5% annually, and intermodal containers and trailers, at 282,930, decreased 2.6% annually.

August U.S. rail carloads were up 0.7% annually, for its sixth straight month of annual gains, and August intermodal volume, headed up 0.5% annually, with average weekly intermodal volume, at 284,316, coming in at the highest level, for any month, going back to May 2021, as well as highest August reading since 2018.

Rail carloads, at 214,383, fell 3.5% annually, and intermodal containers and trailers, at 253,497 units, were off 1.4%.