Weekly Carloads by Railroad | Railfriend

Report Week

April 18, 2026

Total Carloads

554,611

Railroads

Commodities

Week:

Carloads by Commodity

Railroads as columns, commodities sorted by total volume

Commodity	BNSF	CN	CPKC	CSX	NS	UP	Total
Containers	96,689	4,410	4,086	49,176	64,700	59,323	278,384
Coal	20,765	1,165	0	10,320	11,691	11,001	54,942
Chemicals	7,797	3,062	2,081	5,039	3,105	18,095	39,179
Grain	14,034	1,573	4,035	1,832	2,540	6,667	30,681
Crushed Stone, Sand and Gravel	3,893	2,599	2,189	4,885	3,119	8,280	24,965
Motor Vehicles and Equipment	2,831	1,798	237	4,797	6,125	2,889	18,677
Petroleum Products	5,186	715	1,302	1,565	798	3,609	13,175
Grain Mill Products	3,943	751	825	1,125	1,785	3,690	12,119
Metallic Ores	1,301	7,821	94	754	94	163	10,227
Stone, Clay and Glass Products	2,252	213	201	1,858	1,505	2,597	8,626
Metals	1,116	94	304	2,159	3,422	1,345	8,440
Trailers	3,514	0	0	1,112	1,591	1,449	7,666
Food and Kindred Products	2,587	330	287	547	663	2,474	6,888
Fertilizer	2,096	274	158	1,339	516	1,616	5,999
All Other	1,677	627	222	434	207	2,532	5,699
Pulp, Paper and Allied Products	548	591	731	1,732	1,073	849	5,524
Iron and Steel Scrap	1,188	132	256	1,324	1,379	1,046	5,325
Waste and Scrap Materials	334	260	117	2,407	1,037	401	4,556
Coke	418	673	770	988	616	883	4,348
Lumber and Wood Products	995	132	260	413	360	1,491	3,651
Non Metallic Minerals	424	22	41	1,969	255	891	3,602
Primary Forest Products	23	25	13	472	313	233	1,079
Farm Products except Grain	542	1	31	40	81	164	859
Total	174,153	27,268	18,240	96,287	106,975	131,688	554,611

National carload and intermodal volumes over time

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Source: Association of American Railroads (AAR) weekly carload reports.