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For the week ending Sept. 24, BNSF Railway Co.’s average daily train loadings in the Powder River Basin (PRB) climbed to 48.7 compared with 47.4 during the same 2005 period — the 28th consecutive week average daily coal loadings bested last year’s totals.

Year-to-date through Sept. 24, BNSF loaded an average of 49.3 trains daily in the PRB, a 10.3 percent increase compared with the same 2005 period.

Systemwide through Sept. 24, the railroad loaded a total of 207.8 million tons of coal, up 10.7 percent compared with similar 2005 data. A week earlier, BNSF surpassed 200 million tons for the first time before October. During the past two years, the Class I reached the mark on Oct. 16, 2004, and Oct. 12, 2005.