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Small-Port Ro-Ro Terminal Rail-Car/Auto-Rack Loading Counts

count of auto-rack rail cars loaded/unloaded at inland auto distribution rail yards

Feed detail
Measures
count of auto-rack rail cars loaded/unloaded at inland auto distribution rail yards
Source
Surface Transportation Board (STB) weekly rail traffic reports (AAR carload data, motor vehicle & parts category)
Access
csv
Cadence
weeklyupdates roughly weekly
Thesis
Auto-rack rail carloadings are the most direct, non-modeled read on new-vehicle distribution volume from plants to dealers
Maps to
new vehicle production/distribution flow
Crowdedness
contested
Tier
tA
Ban-risk
ban:none
Where this stands

This is a catalogued data feed with a research idea attached, not a validated edge. Being listed here means it has a specific source and a one-sentence causal mechanism mapped to what it should move — it doesn’t mean it has cleared the five-stage validation gate (point-in-time hygiene, out-of-sample holdout, multiple-testing correction, and the portfolio-layer backstop). As of today, every score on this site is prior-only; zero signals in the catalog have been promoted to “measured” status. See the methodology page for the full validation process and current counts.

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