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1/27/2009
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Short lines slow out of '09 traffic gate, RMI data shows
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Like their Class I counterparts, short lines didn’t get off to a good traffic start in 2009. During the first full week ending Jan. 10, 345 reporting regionals and short lines handled 97,065 carloads, down 7.1 percent compared with the total from the same 2008 period, according to RMI’s RailConnect Index of Short Line Traffic.
Ores traffic plummeted 42.5 percent to 1,523 carloads, motor vehicles and equipment traffic tumbled 36 percent to 422 carloads, metals and product traffic declined 31 percent to 7,218 carloads and paper products traffic fell 24 percent to 6,231 carloads.
Other commodities registering decreases include “all other traffic” (down 18.5 percent to 1,507 units), intermodal (down 15.1 percent to 7,948 units), lumber and forest products (down 14.1 percent to 3,118 units), grain (down 13.1 percent to 13,582 units), waste and scrap materials (down 9.8 percent to 3,874 units), and chemicals (down 0.2 percent to 16,419 units).
Only four commodity groups posted gains: coal (up 23 percent to 15,637 units), stone/clay/aggregates (up 11.8 percent to 9,186 units), farm and food products (up 0.6 percent to 5,155 units), and petroleum and coke (up 0.2 percent to 5,245 units).
Ores traffic plummeted 42.5 percent to 1,523 carloads, motor vehicles and equipment traffic tumbled 36 percent to 422 carloads, metals and product traffic declined 31 percent to 7,218 carloads and paper products traffic fell 24 percent to 6,231 carloads.
Other commodities registering decreases include “all other traffic” (down 18.5 percent to 1,507 units), intermodal (down 15.1 percent to 7,948 units), lumber and forest products (down 14.1 percent to 3,118 units), grain (down 13.1 percent to 13,582 units), waste and scrap materials (down 9.8 percent to 3,874 units), and chemicals (down 0.2 percent to 16,419 units).
Only four commodity groups posted gains: coal (up 23 percent to 15,637 units), stone/clay/aggregates (up 11.8 percent to 9,186 units), farm and food products (up 0.6 percent to 5,155 units), and petroleum and coke (up 0.2 percent to 5,245 units).
