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…
The number of carloads moved on short line and regional railroads increased slightly by 1.5 percent in year-to-year comparisons. Total carloads were up from 355,680 in August 2014 to 360,936 in August 2015. Trailer or container led gains with a 31 percent increase, followed by grain mill products and food and kindred products, up 13 percent and 9 percent, respectively. The most significant declines were observed in metallic ores, down 58…
Every year, Railinc employees come together to celebrate fall with a fun, companywide event. It's a great chance to unwind with our colleagues outside the office for an afternoon. Recently, we took the short walk from our office to North Cary Park to enjoy a lunch prepared from the back of a vintage fire truck by Barry's Cafe. After lunch, employees competed in some classic…
The number of carloads moved on short line and regional railroads increased by 2.2 percent in year-to-year comparisons. Total carloads were up from 357,763 in July 2014 to 365,509 in July 2015.
 
Trailer or container led gains with a 46 percent increase, followed by food and kindred products and nonmetallic minerals, up 12 and 11 percent, respectively. The most significant declines were observed in metallic ores, down 45 percent…
Let’s be clear: We all prefer to be recognized for the quality and value of our work. Like when the Railinc-made mobile app AskRail, which is a safety app for first responders, gets discussed on CNBC or by a
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 total size of the North American rail equipment fleet increased slightly during the second quarter of 2015. The total equipment count was 2,048,067 compared to 2,028,883 during the first quarter of 2015, resulting in a 1 percent increase from the previous quarter.

The three largest segments once again were Covered Hoppers (26 percent), Tank Cars (20 percent) and Gondolas (12 percent).

Group increases over the…
Railinc collects, manages, distributes and analyzes a lot of rail data. For example, in our Event Repository database, we have logged at any given time, nearly 1 billion movement data points ("events") that document the time a train arrives to or departs from a location. Moving and managing that much data requires Railinc to use state-of-the-art technologies and infrastructure solutions so that we can meet the evolving needs of our customers.…