Weekly US coal train loadings averaged 74.5 trains/day in the week ended February 28, up 1.3 trains/day from the previous week, Surface Transportation Board data showed Monday. From the year-ago week loadings declined 14.2 trains/day. Through the first two months of 2020, weekly loadings averaged 79.3 trains/day. Central Appalachian loadings averaged 13.9 trains/day in the most recent week, a five-week high. Loadings from the basin rose 3.2 trains/day week on week and down 2.7 trains/day from the year-ago week. From the Northern Appalachian basin loadings reached a six-week high, averaging 10 trains/day. From the prior week, loadings were up 1.4 trains/day. Year-on-year, loadings dropped 2.2 trains/day. Through January and February, NAPP loadings averaged 11.6 trains/day. Illinois Basin loadings averaged 3.3 trains/day, the fewest weekly average loadings per day since the start of the year. Over […]