Weekly Railfax Report

Summary of Rail Traffic from Atlantic Systems Inc.
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Total Industry
Major Commodity Groups Total Grain Chemicals Food Forest Metals Coal Autos Intermodal
Current Week                  
Vs. 1996 6.3% (11.0%) (0.7%) 3.1% 2.9% 10.6% 11.7% 101.9% 0.2%
Vs. 1995 (0.3%) (22.4%) (1.3%) 1.2% (4.7%) (5.1%) 10.7% 76.0% (5.2%)
4 Week Rolling Avg.                  
Vs. 1996 3.4% (6.4%) 0.6% 0.1% 1.7% 3.5% 3.8% 10.5% 4.4%
Vs. 1995 6.1% (3.9%) 7.7% 1.9% (0.2%) (0.6%) 7.5% 17.4% 10.6%
Quarter to Date                  
Vs. 1996 1.4% (6.8%) 1.3% (0.4%) (0.2%) 1.9% (0.4%) 7.4% 3.6%
Vs. 1995 4.3% (6.1%) 4.8% (0.4%) (2.7%) 2.1% 2.8% 9.9% 10.8%
Year to Date                  
Vs. 1996 2.7% (2.7%) 3.9% 1.3% 0.2% 0.9% (0.1%) 4.7% 6.8%
Vs. 1995 2.9% (11.1%) 5.3% (5.2%) (2.7%) 0.8% 2.1% 8.6% 9.6%
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Individual Carriers

Carriers

CRR

CSX

NSC

IC

BNSF

KSU

UNP

WCLX

CNI

CP

Current Week

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vs. 1996

14.8%

17.4%

8.8%

(2.2%)

16.5%

5.5%

(9.2%)

22.8%

30.6%

18.7%

Vs. 1995

16.9%

10.1%

8.0%

14.4%

0.7%

(2.4%)

(18.3%)

30.5%

7.4%

(5.1%)

4 Week Rolling Avg.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vs. 1996

10.4%

5.9%

3.3%

(2.9%)

12.4%

11.6%

(9.7%)

15.0%

11.0%

5.1%

Vs. 1995

17.1%

8.7%

9.0%

11.7%

10.5%

5.4%

(11.8%)

38.0%

17.8%

4.6%

Quarter to Date

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vs. 1996

7.0%

4.0%

4.2%

(1.5%)

10.2%

11.6%

(12.7%)

18.2%

11.3%

1.8%

Vs. 1995

12.3%

6.2%

8.6%

13.0%

8.1%

1.0%

(13.0%)

39.6%

18.2%

1.3%

Year to Date

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vs. 1996

5.2%

3.6%

4.9%

4.5%

5.3%

2.4%

(3.9%)

20.6%

10.9%

1.0%

Vs. 1995

7.1%

3.6%

6.8%

7.3%

2.6%

(2.2%)

(6.6%)

35.9%

12.8%

0.1%

Market Share

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1997

16.4%

21.4%

18.0%

3.9%

27.6%

2.9%

31.9%

2.1%

 

 

1996

16.0%

21.3%

17.6%

3.8%

26.9%

2.9%

34.0%

1.8%

 

 

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Total Industry Charts
Year over Year Percent Change
13 Week Rolling Averages
Total Traffic Intermodal Traffic
Baseline Traffic Cyclical Traffic


Weekly Loaded Units
4 Week Rolling Averages
Total Rail Traffic Intermodal Traffic
Baseline Traffic Cyclical Traffic

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Individual Carrier Charts
Total Carrier Traffic Trends
4 Week Rolling Averages
Conrail CSX
Norfolk Southern Illinois Central
BN - SF Union Pacific
Kansas City Southern Wisconsin Central
Canadian National Canadian Pacific

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What is Railshare
Rail traffic figures are provided each Thursday by the Association of American Railroads. Atlantic Systems Inc. distributes the data covering the week ending the preceeding Saturday in our Railshare data base. Rail traffic is disaggregated between carload (traffic moving in traditional freight cars such as box cars, tank cars and hoppers) and intermodal traffic (containers and piggyback service). Railshare provides commodity breakdowns for carload traffic; commodity detail for intermodal traffic is unavailable. Railroads originate and also move traffic jointly with other originating carriers. The carrier totals shown in Railshare aggregate all traffic handled by individual carriers. Market shares are calculated as total handlings by carrier divided by total U.S. originated rail traffic. Railshare graphs show four major breakdowns of rail traffic. Total traffic includes all carload and intermodal traffic; carload traffic is further divided between economically sensitive commodities (cyclical) and those that are less affected by the business cycle (baseline).

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Atlantic Systems Inc.
11 East 44th Street
New York, New York 10017
(347) 293-1776

Last Updated on 01/07/98
By Mark Schulberg

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