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© Brad Sauter
| Dreamstime.com
Key takeaway: American freight railroads are in the middle of their strongest sustained run since before the pandemic. The industry is too busy fighting over a merger to notice.
US freight railroads just posted their 22nd consecutive week of year-over-year traffic gains, and the reaction across the logistics trade has been roughly equivalent to a shrug. For the week ending September 5, total US rail traffic hit 533,545 carloads and intermodal units, up 13.8% from the same week in …