Weekly US coal carloads total 57,665, down 17.9% on year: AAR

Houston — Weekly US coal carloads totaled 57,665 in the week ended Jan. 16, down 5.1% from the previous week, Association of American Railroads data showed Jan. 20.

From the year-ago week, carloads dropped 17.9%, and compared with the five-year average of 81,178 for the second week, carloads were down 29%.

Coal produced 10.9% of all weekly US traffic in the second week of the year.

Canadian coal carloads totaled 7,873, up 8.9% week on week and up 97.8% from the year-ago week.

Weekly coal carloads from the four major US railroads totaled 61,569, down 37.3% year on year.

BNSF carloads totaled 26,518, down 3.9% from the week before and down 20% from the year-ago week. Out of the weekly traffic, coal produced 13.2% of all carloads.

Coal carloads on Union Pacific dropped 20% from the week before to 10,141. From the year-ago week, they fell 34.5%. Coal made up 6.4% of all UP carloads.

CSX coal carloads totaled 12,138 in the most recent week, down 6.8% from the previous week and down 16% from the year-ago week. Coal was 9.9% of all weekly traffic.

Norfolk Southern carloads rose week on week 1.4% to 12,772, and it fell 10.6% from the year-ago week. Coal carloads were 8.9% of weekly NS traffic.