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AAR reports October carloads show annual gains
November 07, 2011 - LM Editorial
As was the case in September, the Association for American Railroads (AAR) reported that carload and intermodal volumes in October were up on an annual basis.
October carloads—at 1,215,627—were up 1.7 percent annually. And intermodal—at 975,566 trailers and containers—was up 3.6 percent compared to October 2010. Both categories were also up sequentially, ahead of September's 1,195,671 carloads and 949,606 trailers and containers.
"While there is clearly room for improvement, October rail traffic appears to indicate that we are still in a slowly growing economy," said AAR Senior Vice President John T. Gray in a statement. "Rail carloads of many key industrial commodities — chemicals, steel, petroleum products, crushed stone and gravel — are up, and higher rail shipments of autos and intermodal are consistent with a potential pickup on the consumer side of our economy. Things can change quickly, of course, and the growth rates are certainly not as robust as we would like to see, but we at least appear to be headed in the right direction."
What's more October brought about the highest weekly carload total of any month since October 2008, with a weekly average of 303,907 and represents the highest annual percentage increase since March of this year.
On the intermodal side, the weekly average of 243,892 trailers and containers is the highest weekly total since October 2006 and the sixth highest weekly average of any month in history, according to the AAR.
AAR officials noted that October is traditionally the best month for intermodal traffic because it is when retailers do the bulk of their stocking up for the holidays. They added that the "containerization of U.S. rail intermodal service continues its upward trend," explaining that containers accounted for 86.0 percent of U.S. rail intermodal volume in 2011, down fractionally from September's 86.1 percent and August's 86.3 percent. This period, said the AAR, represents a stretch in which never before have containers accounted for such a high percentage of U.S. intermodal traffic.
This sentiment was similar at this month's RailTrends conference presented by Progressive Railroading magazine and independent industry analyst Tony Hatch.
Both Class I and short line executives noted at RailTrends that intermodal continues to be a major driver for traffic and volume growth.
"Truckload carriers that provide intermodal service are going to the railroads to work on developing [corridors and related projects like terminals], because shippers are asking for it," said Hatch at RailTrends. "Intermodal is running at a high level of precision."
For the week ending October 29, the AAR said that U.S. rails moved 307,900 carloads for a 5.2 percent annual gain. This is ahead of the previous two weeks, which hit 301,864 and 303,363, respectively. Carloads on Eastern rails were up 2.3 percent, and volumes were up 7.1 percent out West.
Intermodal for the week ending October 29 reached 243,774 trailers and containers for a 4.6 percent annual improvement. This was slightly below the previous two weeks, which came in at 245,404 and 244,289, respectively.
Of the 20 commodity groups tracked by the AAR, 14 showed weekly gains, with iron and steel scrap up 23.5 percent and petroleum products up 20.5 percent.
On a year-to-date basis, carloads are up 1.8 percent at 12,544,777, and intermodal is up 5.3 percent at 9,856,792.
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10 Nov 2011 4:20 AM #1
Unanswered: Column Chart - how to customize legend text
I need to customize the legend text in a column chart and could not find the way to do it.
Tried to add renderer, legendRenderer to the legend but nothing works.
Any help would be appreciated.
17 Nov 2011 9:22 AM #2
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Currently no way to easily do this.Mitchell Simoens @LikelyMitch
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18 Nov 2011 6:08 AM #3
I needed to customize axis title and for that I had to create my own chart theme. I guess you wil have to do the same for legend.
You will have to create your own file_MyTheme.scss and use the cmd "build-touch-charts.sh/.bat", as described here : http://docs.sencha.com/touch-charts/1-0/#!/guide/touch_charts_styling
Take a look at that file if you decide to create your theme :
4 Dec 2011 6:31 AM #4
Are you referring to the way Sencha uses the data model field names as labels?
In our case, we're using SQLite as the data source so it was a simple matter of using field aliases in our SELECT SQL statements to get user friendly display names.
We also needed to make those names react to the on-the-fly language change system .. which we found we could
4 Dec 2011 11:59 PM #5
Yes, I exactly mean that. I did workaround it by changing the field names.
How did you make those names react to the 'on-the-fly language change system'? Do you mean you did it by changing the aliases on the SQL?
5 Dec 2011 2:39 AM #6
We have built an on-the-fly language changing system, using a JSON array of translations... called by a function called "_ ". We load the array before the models & proxies are loaded.
This all works well...
E.g. Model
PHP Code:
Ext.regModel('weatherGraphModel', {
fields: [
{name : 'TheDate' , type : 'datetime'},
{name : _('Rainfall') , type : 'float'},
{name : _('Evaporation') , type : 'float'},
{name : _('MinTemp') , type : 'float'},
{name : _('MaxTemp') , type : 'float'},
{name : _('MinHumidity') , type : 'float'},
{name : _('MaxHumidity') , type : 'float'},
{name : _('MaxTempHumidity') , type : 'float'}
proxy: {
type: "graphProxy"
PHP Code:
sql = 'SELECT TheDate, '+
'Rainfall AS '+_('Rainfall')+
', Evaporation AS '+_('Evaporation')+
', MinTemp AS '+_('MinTemp')+
', MaxTemp AS '+_('MaxTemp')+
', MinHumidity AS '+_('MinHumidity')+
', MaxHumidity AS '+_('MaxHumidity')+
', MaxTempHumidity AS '+_('MaxTempHumidity');
PHP Code:
axes: [{
type: 'Numeric',
minimum: 0,
position: 'left',
fields: [_('Rainfall'), _('Evaporation'), _('MinTemp'), _('MaxTemp')],
6 Dec 2011 12:05 AM #7
8 Jan 2013 6:28 AM #8
Try this
I found this example for ExtJs4, but works for touch charts.
series: [{
yField: ['data1', 'data2'],
title: ['Title 1', 'Title 2']

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When I go to the front page of Stack Overflow, I normally hold down ctrl and hit each of my tags so I can pull up a different browser tab for each tag that I have in my "Interesting tags" section. About every third time I go through this sequence, I accidentally hit the 'x' next to a tag and delete the tag. If I had an option to lock the tags (or a tag was somehow slightly more difficult to accidentally delete) I could avoid this annoyance.
What is meta?
- Any Stack Exchange user can ask a question
- The community provides support, votes on ideas, and reports bugs
- Your voice helps shape the way Stack Exchange operates
Perhaps the tags should only be editable from the user profile? Or one can add tags on the main page, but go to the user profile to remove them (or adjust their order, which I believe has been requested before).
You could completely remove the
The tag can still be removed from "Interesting Tags" by going to the tag's page, mouse-over on that tag, and click the ★ at the top-left corner in the info box.
The specific behavior that I use to open up the tags is to press the ctrl key and then hit each of my favorite'd tags. This causes firefox/chrome to open up each tag page in a new tab while not changing focus to the new tab. Similarly the shift key causes a link to open up in a new window.
I'm not sure if javascript supports this, but one specific fix to this issue would be to only delete a tag if neither the ctrl key nor the shift key are pressed.


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Pasta Salad with Grapes and Pecans RecipePasta Salad with Grapes and Pecans
Source: MyFoodDiary.com
Picnics and potluck dinners are not complete without pasta salad. Filled with sweet grapes, crunchy pecans, and a light dressing, this version saves you calories without sacrificing flavor. You can substitute your favorite pasta for the orzo, or use brown rice or whole grain couscous.
Yield: 8 servings
Preparation time: 15 minutes
- 2 cups cooked orzo pasta
- 1 cup halved seedless red grapes
- 1/4 cup chopped unsalted pecans
- 3 green onions, whites and greens thinly sliced
- 1 tbsp mayonnaise
- 1 tbsp low-fat Greek yogurt
- 1 tsp red wine vinegar
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp garlic powder
- Combine the pasta, grapes, pecans, and onions in a medium-sized bowl.
- In a small dish, stir together the mayonnaise, yogurt, red wine vinegar, sugar, salt, and garlic powder. Stir well, until the sugar begins to dissolve.
Pour the dressing over the pasta and stir to coat all of the ingredients. Refrigerate 30 minutes before serving.
Nutrition information for one serving (about 1/2 cup): Calories 99; Total Fat 3.3 g; Saturated Fat 0.3 g; Trans Fat 0 g; Cholesterol 1 mg; Sodium 85 mg; Carbohydrate 15.7 g; Fiber 1 g; Sugar 4.3 g; Protein 2.2 g