High volumes of heavy cargo and products are transported long distances throughout the U.S. via the U.S. rail network. Each day, serves almost every industrial, wholesale, retail, and resource-based sector of the economy. Freight rail moves more than 70 percent of the nation's coal, about 58 percent of its raw metal ores, and more than 30 percent of its grain, as well as 13.5 million intermodal containers and trailers.