Mixed carload and intermodal volumes remain intact, reports AAR
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Carloads were down 5.4 percent annually to 285,856, which topped the week ending September 19 at 285,320 and the week ending September 12 at 268,960.
The AAR said that four of the ten carload commodity groups it tracks saw annual gains for the week ending September 19, with grain up 30.1 percent to 22,232 carloads and miscellaneous carloads up 14 percent to 10,100. Petroleum and petroleum products were down 22.3 percent to 13,014.
Intermodal containers and trailers were up 2.1 percent to 280,844, which was below the week ending September 19 at 281,414, and ahead of the week ending September 12 at 241,837.
Through the first 38 weeks of 2015, AAR said that U.S. carloads are down 4.4 percent annually at 10,590,411 and intermodal units are up 2.5 percent at 10,135,249.
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