Traffic density matters because it helps managers decide which rail track routes shift from main lines to possibly less viable branch lines.

Rail could leap forward with on-time management of shipper goods if it were bolder and faster at innovating.

AAR disregards that straight electric locomotives are easier to maintain. Plus each electric locomotive could be as powerful as perhaps two diesel-electric units.

Momentum for increasing railroad chemical traffic should continue in 2021.

A good news indicator will be when the railroads and private car fleet owners start placing large new orders.

The abnormal year of 2020 cannot be ignored. It simply is less relevant for strategic purposes when tracking rail’s progress.

Superior market intel can be a game changer.

Important railroad customers are not satisfied with a business-as-usual case.

Regardless of a transport or logistics manager’s objectives, the digital age name of the game is to estimate the dollar savings provided by an application like this.

A few images convey a great deal about the intermodal rail model.