Rail Freight Traffic – Green Shoots Turn To Weeds

Mark Schulberg over at RailFax does a super job taking raw data of rail traffic and transforming them into excellent charts. Looking at the 4 week rolling averages of rail traffic we see that the green shoot that popped up has quickly wilted.

Rail Traffic - Weekly Loaded Units - 4 week rolling average

Rail Traffic - Weekly Loaded Units - 4 week rolling average

Rail Traffic - Year over Year Percent Change - 13 wk rolling average

Rail Traffic - Year over Year Percent Change - 13 wk rolling average