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Year-over-year rail volume growth is fading.

Union Pacific’s Q3 profits rose on improved pricing, record workforce productivity and fuel consumption.

An association representing several thousand rail shippers is warning a merger of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern will push freight rates higher and lead to unreliable service.

Union Pacific saw record results in the fourth quarter as coal shipments led gains across business segments.

Carload freight and intermodal volumes ran ahead of year ago levels, according to the latest weekly rail data.

Intermodal would be approximately 53% of a combined entity’s volume.

Intermodal, coal, and grains are driving Class I railroad traffic higher.

The deposits are in soft coal, making them economically feasible to develop.

Intermodal helped make CPKC the fastest-growing railroad in the second quarter.

Carload rail freight edged down in the latest week but stayed ahead of year-to-date levels.

Rail traffic was flat in the latest week data as softening demand for China imports likely hit intermodal volumes.

U.S. rail traffic was down for a second straight week y/y, the first back-to-back decline this year after 15 straight weeks ahead of 2024 levels.

Carload freight showed solid growth in May, but a marked decline in containers and trailers signals caution for the second half of this year.

Freight on U.S. railroads posted another win against year-ago shipments.

U.S. railroads carried more freight in the most recent week from a year ago, according to the latest industry data.

Weekly U.S. rail traffic posted a 5.5% gain from the year-ago period as coal and grain led commodity gainers, according to the Association of American Railroads.

A fire at a Port of Vancouver marine coal terminal caused damage but no injuries over the weekend.

U.S. railroads see the highest weekly intermodal traffic since the pandemic, and ongoing supply chain issues could aid further gains as a threatened longshore strike creeps closer.

BNSF and Navajo Transitional Energy Co. have reached a settlement on NTEC’s request for more rail service to export coal.

A BNSF coal train derailed at a bridge north of Pueblo, Colorado, spilling coal and rail cars onto Interstate 25 beneath. The highway remains closed for now.