US coal carloads fell to a 10-year low 55,542 in the week ended March 14, down 5.3% from a week earlier and 23% lower than the year-ago week, the Association of American Railroads said Wednesday. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now The latest week was down 31.6% from the five-year average and was the lowest corresponding week in over 10 years. Coal carloads represented 12% of all the traffic on US railways, down from 12.7% a week earlier and 14.4% in the year-ago week. Since January 1, cumulative coal carloads are at 716,466, down 18.1% from the same period a year ago. Coal originations on Canadian railroads — including the US operations of Canadian National, which serves several mines in the Illinois Basin – were at 7,963 […]