AAR: October Rail Carloads down 6.6% YoY, Intermodal Up 10.0% YoY

From the Association of American Railroads (AAR) Rail Time Indicators . Graphs and excerpts reprinted with permission . Back in April 2020, when the U.S. economy was basically in a coma, U.S. intermodal originations averaged 219,085 units per week. That was the fewest for any month in more than seven years and the fewest for April in ten years. Back then, no one would have thought that six months later, in October 2020, U.S. railroads would have their best intermodal month in history . Yet that's where we are: U.S. railroads originated an average of 292,469 containers and trailers per week in ......(read more)

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