Freight carried by U.S. railroads down 24.3 percent.

[Euphod]

http://www.businessmanagementdaily....rs-in-gamble-business-will-improve/Page1.html#

Different railroads believe the economy will act differently. Let's see who will be right...

 

[backyard]

....no, let's do it this way...

Euphod, you so shock me....

Ed, when you see long intermodal & especially the drop-dead rate manifest freight trains pick up in business, car & locomotive storage disapear, then you know the economy is near-about to rise...this all began to occur before the recession was officially declared..

But I thought you knew this...

 

[Euphod]

Sometimes you seem to be so lucid, and then others...

 

[gtasa]

as the economy picks up trains will carry more

 

[backyard]

...not my point...

I say again...when intermodal & manifest trains start increasing, that's a sign of pending economic upturn...

 

[illinoiscentral]

I can't state my opinion...:hehe:

When 280 autoracks leave KRM, then we'll see.
around 50-60 Autoracks are stored on a CSX siding in Marshall Illinois, have been since late 2008.

 

[SuperFudd]

Oops!
I mis read. I thought you meant a 24.3% grade.
I was going to mention that a spur of the Yosemite Valley RR may have been something like 24%. It raised and lowered cars with rope and a stationary steam engine at the top. Not always sucesfully. But I won't.