US June Rail Traffic = economy improving

Rail Traffic for June 2020, 

from the Association of 

American Railroads:

June 2020:

1,004,933 

containers 

and trailers 

(intermodal units)

down 6.6% 

from June 2019.

  Note:

Motor vehicles 

& parts 

down 30.3%

May 2020:

Intermodal units

down 13%, 

from May 2019.

  Note:

Motor vehicles 

& parts 

down 75%

January through June 2020:

Total intermodal units

down 10.6% from 2019.

January through May 2020:

Total intermodal units, 

down 11.3% from 2019.

For June 2020,

 AAR Senior Vice President

 John T. Gray said 

"Additionally, the reopening 

of automotive plants that began 

in early June has regrown 

that business from as little as

 2,000 weekly loads to over 

13,000 by the end of the month."

" ... leading the 

way upward was the 

intermodal business 

which, over the 

last two months, 

grew to match volumes 

last seen around 

the first of February."