Rail Traffic for the Week Ending February 23, 2019

The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending February 23, 2019. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 522,630 carloads and intermodal units, down 1.1 percent compared with the same week last year. Total carloads for the week ending February 23 were 256,954 carloads, up 2 percent compared with the same week in 2018, while U.S. weekly intermodal volume was 265,676 containers and trailers, down 3.9 percent compared to 2018.