AAR: Weekly US Petroleum, Product Carloads Up vs Yr Ago


   
   The Association of American Railroads data show petroleum and petroleum 
product carloads totaled 11,192 in the week-ended Feb. 1, 6.4% above the same 
week in 2024.

   Year to date, petroleum and petroleum products carloads totaled 52,777, 5.5% 
above the corresponding period in 2024.

   AAR reports total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 513,622 carloads and 
intermodal units in the week profiled, up 4.5% compared with the same week last 
year.

   Total carloads for the week-ended Feb. 1 were 222,071 carloads, down 0.1% 
compared to the same week a year earlier while U.S. weekly intermodal volume 
was 291,551 containers and trailers, up 8.2% compared to 2024.

   For the first five weeks of 2025, U.S. railroads reported cumulative volume 
of 1,025,664 carloads, up 0.2% from the same point last year; and 1,329,715 
intermodal units, up 10.3% from 2024. Total combined U.S. traffic for the first 
five weeks of 2025 was 2,355,379 carloads and intermodal units, an increase of 
5.6% compared to last year.

   AAR reports North American rail volume on nine reporting U.S., Canadian and 
Mexican railroads totaled 325,668 carloads for the week ended Feb. 1, down 0.4% 
compared to the same week last year, and 374,743 intermodal units, up 6.8% 
compared with last year.

   Total combined weekly rail traffic in North America was 700,411 carloads and 
intermodal units in the week under review, up 3.3%. North American rail volume 
for the first five weeks of 2025 was 3,266,506 carloads and intermodal units, 
up 6.1% compared with 2024.




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