WASHINGTON — After several weeks of steady gains in freight carload traffic, U.S. railroads saw a dip for the week ending Sept. 16. Railroads handled 260,771 carloads for the week, down 3.6 percent compared with the same week in 2016, while U...
http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2017/09/22-aar-carload-report
Brian Schmidt, Editor, Classic Trains magazine
But, once again, BNSF bucks the general trend: Intermodal up 9.58%, Carloads up 1.63%, Total up 5.54% from last year. As of week 37 of this year, BNSF hauls 23% more total freight units than UP does. Last year the BNSF had generated 41% more gross ton-miles than the UP did (1,209,111 million vs 856,895 million). Quite a difference, depending on what catagory of volume you measure. Meanwhile, the Canadian National is increasing its share even more than BNSF. Their intermodal was up a whopping 24.5% over this week last year. However, the BNSF still dominates with 206,605 total freight units hauled (both carloads and intermodal) vs 168,000 for UP & 119,000 for CN. The BNSF seems to be hauling about 39% of the total freight units in the USA, based upon the above week 37 AAR figures; however, that can't be right because other indicators say that the BNSF only carries about 25% of the total freight units. Anyone care to comment about this? ...........Edward Johnson
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