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Rail Week Ending 03 November 2012: Bad Hair Week Due to Hurricane Sandy

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Econintersect: Week 44 of 2012 ending 03 November shows same week total rail traffic was below 2011 levels according to data released by the Association of American Railroads (AAR).

  • The carload portion of rail traffic showed same week traffic contracted 6.8% (versus last week’s -7.0%).
  • Excluding coal and grain (which are not an economic indicator), rail carloads expanded at 2.5% (last week +2.5%) same week year-over-year.
  • Intermodal same week traffic contracted 6.2% (versus last week’s +3.9%)
  • Total same week traffic rail traffic contracted 3.0% (versus last week’s -2.9%)

USA coal production is down 10.8% same week year-over-year (see below).

“AAR today also reported declines in rail traffic for the week ending Nov. 3, 2012, which included impacts from Hurricane Sandy.  Last week U.S. railroads originated 278,230 carloads, down 6.8 percent compared with the same week last year, while intermodal volume for the week totaled 224,467 trailers and containers, down 6.2 percent compared with the same week last year.

Ten of the 20 carload commodity groups posted increases compared with the same week in 2011, with petroleum products, up 61.5 percent; farm products excluding grain, up 46.4 percent, and lumber and wood products, up 24 percent. The groups showing a decrease in weekly traffic included iron and steel scrap, down 25.8 percent; metallic ores, down 22.9, and nonmetallic minerals, down 22.5 percent.”

A good background article on the switch of the power generating plants from coal to natural gas was published 30May2012 in the NYT. The week before GEI News had reported on the decline in coal usage over the past year.

The majority of the reason for rail year-to-date contraction is coal and grain movements – which would only effect the profitability of railroads, and not an economic indicator as coal is an alternative fuel to oil and natural gas.

 

This Week
CarloadsIntermodalTotal
This week Year-over-Year-6.8%-6.2%-6.3%
This week without coal and grain
2.2%
Year Cumulative to Date-3.0%3.5%-2.1%

 

Current Rail Chart

 

Total (cumulative) year-to-date traffic is contracting year-over-year.

From EIA.gov:

For the week ended November 03, 2012:

  • U.S. coal production totaled approximately 19.4 million short tons (mmst)
  • This production estimate is 1.1 percent lower than last week’s estimate and 10.8 percent lower than the production estimate in the comparable week in 2011
  • Coal production east of the Mississippi River totaled 7.9 mmst
  • Coal production west of the Mississippi River totaled 11.5 mmst
  • U.S. year-to-date coal production totaled 861.2 mmst, 6.2 percent lower than the comparable year-to-date coal production in 2011
  • As of the week ending September 15, 2012, all of 2011 production has been revised to match the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) final 2011 production and second quarter 2012 production has been revised to match MSHA production. These changes are present in the Revisions/Archives section, and are also reflected in the “Current Weekly Estimates” and “Current Monthly Estimates” tables in the year-to-date and 52 weeks ended totals. These changes are not reflected in the two Original Estimates tables.
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    Steven Hansen

    Source: AAR

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