{"id":37915,"date":"2015-08-13T15:27:36","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T19:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smart-union.dev\/news\/u-s-railroads-carloads-down-4-4-percent\/"},"modified":"2015-08-13T15:27:36","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T19:27:36","slug":"u-s-railroads-carloads-down-4-4-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/u-s-railroads-carloads-down-4-4-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. railroads&#039; carloads down 4.4 percent","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1397\" style=\"margin: 4px 12px\" alt=\"railyard, train yard; trains\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/railyard2.jpg\" width=\"130\" height=\"103\" \/>U.S. freight railroad traffic continued its ongoing slump last week, with U.S. railroads reporting a total 562,884 carloads and intermodal units for the week ending Aug. 8, down 0.9 percent compared with the same week last year, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aar.org\/\">Association of American Railroads<\/a>\u00a0(AAR).<\/p>\n<p>U.S. railroads logged 288,460 carloads for the week, down 4.4 percent compared with a year ago. However, the upswing in intermodal business \u2014 an ongoing trend this year \u2014 also continued last week, with U.S. railroads reporting a total of 274,424 containers and trailers, a 3.1 percent increase compared with 2014\u2019s numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Five of the 10 carload commodity groups posted increases for the week: miscellaneous carloads, up 14.2 percent to 9,117 carloads; farm products, up 8.4 percent to 16,854 carloads; and grain, up 1.5 percent to 21,587 carloads.<\/p>\n<p>Read more from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressiverailroading.com\/class_is\/news\/AAR-US-railroads-carloads-down-44-percent-intermodal-traffic-up-31-percent-in-Week-31--45411?email=president@utu.org&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=prdailynews&amp;utm_campaign=prdailynews08\/13\/2015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Progressive Railroading<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. freight railroad traffic continued its ongoing slump last week, with U.S. railroads reporting a total 562,884 carloads and intermodal units for the week ending Aug. 8, down 0.9 percent compared with the same week last year, according to the\u00a0Association of American Railroads\u00a0(AAR). 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