Archive for January 7, 2021

(Source: Progressive Railroading 01/07/2021) In a year roiled by a global pandemic, total combined U.S. freight-rail traffic fell 7.2% to 25,157,476 carloads and intermodal units during the 53 weeks of 2020 compared with the same period in 2019, according to Association of American Railroads data. U.S. carload traffic for the 12 months of 2020 totaled 11,482,059 units,…