Eating breakfast cereal seems simple. You pour it in a bowl, add milk, grab a spoon and dig in. But when you think about what it took for that cereal to reach your table, breakfast can get complicated.
First, a farmer bought supplies to grow and harvest the grain, which was then shipped for milling. Paper pulp and plastic were needed to produce the box and inner wrapper. Those components went to a cereal-production plant. The finished cereal…
The total size of the North American rail equipment fleet held steady during fourth quarter 2015. The total equipment count was 2,060,914 in the fourth quarter, compared to 2,056,726 during the third quarter of 2015, resulting in a 0.2 percent increase.
The three largest segments this quarter were covered hoppers (26 percent), tank cars (21 percent), and gondolas (12 percent).
Group increases over the previous quarter…
The three largest segments this quarter were covered hoppers (26 percent), tank cars (21 percent), and gondolas (12 percent).
Group increases over the previous quarter…
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…
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…
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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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…
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…