The number of carloads moved on short line and regional railroads decreased by 6 percent in year-to-year comparisons. Total carloads were down from 356,316 in December 2014 to 333,751 in December 2015.
Metallic ores led commodity gains with a 57 percent increase. The only other commodities experiencing gains this month were petroleum products and chemicals, up 15 percent and 1 percent, respectively. The most significant…
The sticky notes you find around Railinc tell stories about our culture and how we develop our products; how we learn from and work with our customers; and how we meet the technology needs of the…
The number of carloads moved on short line and regional railroads decreased slightly by 2 percent in year-to-year comparisons. Total carloads were down from 331,740 in November 2014 to 326,535 in November 2015.
Petroleum products led commodity gains with a 15 percent increase, followed by grain mill products and pulp, paper, and allied products, up 14 and 13 percent respectively. The most significant declines were observed in…
Petroleum products led commodity gains with a 15 percent increase, followed by grain mill products and pulp, paper, and allied products, up 14 and 13 percent respectively. The most significant declines were observed in…
The number of carloads moved on short line and regional railroads decreased by 5 percent in year-to-year comparisons. Total carloads were down from 381,609 in October 2014 to 362,018 in October 2015.
Grain mill products led commodity gains with a 6 percent increase, followed by chemicals and grain, up 3 percent each. The most significant declines were observed in metallic ores, down 56 percent, followed by metals and products…
Grain mill products led commodity gains with a 6 percent increase, followed by chemicals and grain, up 3 percent each. The most significant declines were observed in metallic ores, down 56 percent, followed by metals and products…
What do you do when a mile isn't actually a mile? Or when two rail mileposts are labeled with the same number but located in different places? These are just some of questions Railinc faces as it works to build a map of the Chicago Gateway, the busiest rail hub in the U.S. In this guest post, Railinc Data Architect David Weinberg considers the curious case of Milepost 21 and how data that seems simple can get complicated in a hurry.
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As the workplace goes, coworkers come and go. Companies grow, more people join. People grow and people go. It’s a natural course in the life of a business. But there are those who join, work hard, make good things happen and stick around for a while. Maybe even for most of their career. They grow a following, a friend base of people they work with, customers and vendors they get to know over the years. When they leave the company—for one…
When Jim Moran started his railroad career in 1958 as a clerk in the machine room of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the industry had not yet embraced data processing. A discipline like car hire—the calculating and disbursing of the compensation paid for the use of a railcar—wasn't done through sophisticated technology systems like the ones Railinc manages today.
"If you could have seen what we did with car hire," Moran said. "It was unbelievable…
The number of carloads moved on short line and regional railroads decreased by 1 percent in year-to-year comparisons. Total carloads were down from 360,369 in September 2014 to 356,011 in September 2015.
Chemicals led commodity gains with an 8 percent increase, followed by food and kindred products and coal, up 7 and 6 percent, respectively. The most significant declines were observed in metallic ores, down 46 percent, metals…
Chemicals led commodity gains with an 8 percent increase, followed by food and kindred products and coal, up 7 and 6 percent, respectively. The most significant declines were observed in metallic ores, down 46 percent, metals…