RailAmerica’s carloads up 7% in January
RailAmerica Inc., a holding company for 43 short-line railroads in the United States and Canada, said January freight carloads rose 6.9 percent to 112,829 from 105,507 in the same month 2005.
The acquisition of the Alcoa railroads and the Fremont line in Michigan net of the impact of the sale of the San Luis and Rio Grande Railroad in December 2005 and the three Alberta properties in January 2006, accounted for 1,396 carloads of the increase, RailAmerica said.
RailAmerica operates about 8,000 track miles in the United States and Canada.