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The good news: Last week, U.S. railroads’ carloadings reached their highest level in nine weeks. The bad: carloads still trail last year’s pace by a wide margin.

During the week ending June 6, U.S. roads originated 260,282 carloads, down 19.8 percent, and 188,801 intermodal loads, down 20.1 percent compared with totals from the same week last year, according to the Association of American Railroads.

Canadian railroads’ carloads declined 27.9 percent to 55,914 units and intermodal loads fell 19.7 percent to 39,357 units, while Mexican railroads’ carloads dropped 19.9 percent to 11,791 units and intermodal volume decreased 21.9 percent to 4,634 units.

For more information on North American railroads' traffic through 2009's first 22 weeks and during the week ending June 6, follow this link.