Weekly carloads from the Surface Transportation Board’s (STB) Rail Service Metrics. Each week the seven Class I railroads submit originated and received carloads by 23 major commodity groups, such as grain, grain mill, primary forest products, chemicals, coal, containers, trailers, etc.

While the STB began collecting some service metrics from railroads (e.g., trains speeds, origin dwell, and terminal dwell) in October 2014, it did not start collecting carload data until March 2017 through a new rulemaking.

Line chart showing weekly originated grain carloadings with a separate line for each railroad. Use the filters to choose different commodities, shipment types, railroads, or date ranges.

Line chart showing total carloads per railroad (originated grain, by default) by week, with separate lines for recent years, providing a seasonal comparison. Filters can be adjusted to specific railroads, different commodities, or to include received carloads.

Line chart showing monthly averages of railcar bids in the secondary auction market, broken out by year to provide a seasonal perspective on rates. Filterable by date, railroad, and train type.

Line chart showing the full history (monthly averages) of the secondary auction market grain railcar bids, broken out by train type. Filterable by date, railroad, and train type.

This dataset contains the annual volumes of major commodities transported by barge, measured in ton-miles. The data is from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Waterborne Commerce Statistics.

This chart shows the weekly ocean-going grain vessel loading activity in the U.S. Gulf and the Pacific Northwest.

The data shows the cost of shipping grain from the U.S. Gulf and Pacific Northwest to Japan in dollar per metric ton.

See and interact with the latest grain transportation cost data, including comparisons between soybean transportation costs in the US and Brazil.

Line chart showing total soybean transportation costs to China, including two US and two Brazil origins.