Summary of U.S. Rail Freight Traffic for the Week Ending June 20, 2009

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Source: Weekly Railfax Rail Carloading Report, Railfax

The number of autos carried by the railroads is still at low levels. The forest products sector has also been heavily affected since that is tied to the construction industry. Every commodity group traffic is down this past week relative to 2008. Compared to last year, overall traffic is down 18.8%. Based on the weekly data for individual carriers, Canadian National (CNI) was the worst performer with -21.6% YoY and Kansas City Southern (KSU) carried the most freight at -9.1% compared to 2008 levels.

Comments

[Monty23:]

Must have something to do with those hundreds of empty/unused boxcars parked around the countryside.

Jun 26 10:16 AM

[johnny1973:]

duh

Jun 27 05:55 PM