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It was one a pretty good year in 2010 for freight railroads.<\/p>\n
Although freight volume trailed pre-recession 2008 figures, the nation\u2019s major railroads reported a healthy 7.3 percent jump in carload traffic and a 14.2 percent increase in intermodal (trailers and containers on flat cars).<\/p>\n
AAR officials called the 52-week figures “a positive development.”<\/p>\n
Carload traffic remains about 10 percent below pre-recession levels, but its rate of growth continues to increase.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It was one a pretty good year in 2010 for freight railroads. Although freight volume trailed pre-recession 2008 figures, the nation\u2019s major railroads reported a healthy 7.3 percent jump in carload traffic and a 14.2 percent increase in intermodal (trailers and containers on flat cars). AAR officials called the 52-week figures “a positive development.” Carload […]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,45,9,18],"tags":[563,712,701,566,703,713],"member_types":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n