The number of carloads moved on short line and regional railroads decreased by 4.6 percent in year-to-year comparisons. Total carloads were down from 349,658 in May 2015 to 333,542 in May 2016.

Petroleum products led commodity gains with a 21 percent increase, followed by stone, clay, and glass products along with motor vehicles and equipment, up 15 percent and 13 percent, respectively. Coal experienced the most significant decline…
Nearly half of Railinc’s project development activities involve the implementation of rules and processes. So when Doni Reece saw the connections among Railinc systems, industry terms and equipment components mapped, she recognized the potential a networked view had to help employees understand the myriad rules and processes that underlie the company’s applications. As a business analyst, Reece works on Railinc’s
Freight rail is one of the basic building blocks of the U.S. economy, and its impact creates an immense ripple effect that touches all regions, including the Research Triangle, and most industries. How big is that ripple effect? Spending by Class I railroads created nearly $274 billion in economic activity, generated almost $33 billion in total tax revenues and supported about 1.5 million jobs across the country in 2014. That’s according to…
As a release administrator on Railinc's Infrastructure Services and Support Team, Robert Redd works to make sure the company's applications are working for customers and that developers have the infrastructure they need to do their jobs. He tweaks automated builds to account for changes developers make to code. He makes sure the automated build system is functioning properly. He creates dashboards for performance and uptime analysis for Railinc…
The number of carloads moved on short line and regional railroads decreased by 4.5 percent in year-to-year comparisons. Total carloads were down from 349,726 in April 2015 to 334,024 in April 2016.

Motor vehicles and equipment led commodity gains with a 20.7 percent increase, followed by stone, clay and glass products, up 9.3 percent, and chemicals and metals and products, both up nearly 5 percent. The most significant declines were…
Inbound Logistics magazine has named Railinc Corp. among the Top 100 Logistics IT Providers for 2016. This is the fifth time in the last six years that the publication has recognized the company for this annual award. "Railinc continues to provide the technology solutions Inbound Logistics readers need for freight rail shipment…

The total size of the North American rail equipment fleet increased slightly during the first quarter of 2016. The total equipment count was 2,082,010, compared to 2,065,495 during the fourth quarter of 2015, resulting in a 0.8 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 number of carloads moved on short line and regional railroads remained steady with a less than 1 percent decrease in year-to-year comparisons. Total carloads were down slightly from 350,139 in March 2015 to 348,816 in March 2016.

Motor vehicles and equipment led commodity gains with a 35 percent increase, followed by waste and scrap materials, up 16 percent and metals and products, up 14 percent. Nonmetallic minerals experienced…