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Our Coverage Area

We have completed coverage across Canada, the US-Canada border, the US-Mexico border, and we are quickly expanding  across the United States.

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Maersk container on intermodal train

Maersk Moves to UP

Maersk just moved most of its eastbound SoCal freight from BNSF to Union Pacific's Sunset Route — a sudden flip no public report has caught.
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A Tale of Two Corridors

We followed hundreds of thousands of containers across two 2,000-mile rail corridors — Vancouver→Toronto and LA→Chicago. The performance gap between railroads shows up in days, not hours, and appears in no published schedule. See what the data reveals.
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Bar chart of eastbound intermodal container transit times through Chicago, grouped in five-hour brackets from under 5 hours to over 50 hours. BNSF-to-CSX traffic is concentrated in the 5–10 hour bracket at 52%, while BNSF-to-NS traffic is spread across longer brackets with 14% in the 5–10 hour range.

How Bad is the Rail Bottleneck in Chicago?

More than half of BNSF-to-CSX containers cross Chicago in less than 10 hours, RailState data shows.
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Bar chart showing daily container volume at RailState's Mecca, California sensor on Union Pacific's Sunset Route over the past 30 days. Volume held steady between 5,000 and 11,000 containers per day through mid-March, then dropped sharply to near zero on March 19, 2026, following a freight train derailment, with a partial recovery on March 20. A green 7-day moving average line highlights the sudden decline

Two Derailments in 36 Hours Choke Major U.S. Freight Corridors

RailState sensors measured the freight impact of two UP derailments, including a 73% container volume drop on the Sunset Route.
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Freight train traveling through a snowy area

Winter Storm Fern: RailState Data Shows Network Impact Across Three States  

Winter Storm Fern cut freight rail volumes up to 27%. RailState's real-time data shows how the impact varied across Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana.
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Grain Unit Train in front of an elevator

RailState Fills Critical Agriculture Data Gap – New Report on Grain Train Utilization 

The government shutdown paused USDA grain statistics. RailState didn't. October grain train performance shows UP trainsets up, BNSF turn times improved. Lane-by-lane insights the market needs.
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