Weekly US coal train loadings climb 0.8% on week, fall 22.2% on year: STB

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Houston—US coal train loadings rose in the week ended Oct. 2, despite loadings from three of the four major basins declining on the week, Surface Transportation Board data showed Oct. 9. Data that the four major Class I railroads — CSX, Union Pacific, BNSF, and Norfolk Southern — filed to the STB show US loadings averaged 70 trains/day, up 0.8% from 69.4 trains/d in the prior week, but 22.4% lower than the 90.3 trains/d averaged in the year-ago week. It was the 10th weekly increase in the last 14 weeks.