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Record freight railroad loads causing commuter delays.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 2004
By Tom Ramstack, The Washington Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 28--The nation's freight railroads are carrying record amounts of cargo but causing passenger trains in the Washington area and elsewhere to run behind schedule.
A combination of Asian imports hauled cross-country for the Christmas shopping season, a bumper corn crop and high fuel prices mean freight railroads are posting records almost every week.
For the week ending Oct. 16, they carried 33.1 billion "ton-miles" of freight, which refers to the amount of freight per mile carried throughout the nation's rail network, according to the Association of American Railroads.
However, Amtrak, Virginia Railway Express and Maryland Rail Commuter trains share...
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