Lower grain production, exports reduce transportation demand.

Widespread flooding reduced rail service along the Gulf Coast and all but halted regional grain exports through the first week of September.

Railroad plans to begin to invest in its hopper fleet to modernize.

It has set 34 cargo-handling records in the last 25 months.

Increase can be attributed to the large volume of soybeans produced in the first harvest.

Five years ago the company launched the first dedicated grain fleet in Western Australia in more than 30 years.

His infrastructure plan dedicates $200 billion for improvements.

Grain is moving well now but new rail cars, longer train lengths necessary to move larger harvests in the future.

Customers should see improvements in couple of weeks.

Company CEO and president retirement effective May 31.