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Never Let a Good Crisis Go To Waste

The title of this post is a quote credited to Winston Churchill, although the attribution is questionable.   It conveys the notion that dramatic events generate new insights and create opportunities for growth.  Put another way, "look for the silver lining."…

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What’s Up With All These Derailments?

A friend of First Analytics, aware of our safety work in the railroad industry, asked, "so what do you think of all the train derailments?"  He had seen reports of three derailments just within the last few days.  With the…

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Railroad car loadings have mostly recovered

Year-over-year comparisons can attribute too much of a volume decline to COVID-19.  That is what we showed at the beginning of the pandemic, with predictive analytics applied to railroad car loadings data from the American Association of Railroads (AAR).   The…

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