Commentary: Your railroad contingency plan?

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Now a third of the way into the fourth quarter, how is 2020 going to end up for the U.S. freight railroads?

It’s going to be a mixed bag.

There are plus and minus indicators as we look closely at the data year-to-date.

Yes, third-quarter economic recovery has lifted railroad volumes back up — but not for every rail-moved business commodity segment.

Table 1 shows two...