• Freight Railroad Employees: 3,659
• Freight Railroads: 19
• Freight Rail Mileage: 4,271
• Trucks off the Road: It would have taken 12.6 million trucks to handle the freight that moved by rail in Minnesota in 2022.

Originated

• Metallic ores: 55.7 tons, 643,100 cars
• Grain: 14.8 tons, 140,400 cars
• Food products: 8.9 tons, 88,900 cars
• Chemicals: 3.9 tons, 41,400 cars
• Petr. & coal products: 2.9 tons, 30,300 cars
• Other: 11.0 tons, 254,600 cars
• TOTAL: 97.2M tons, 1,198,700 cars

Terminated

• Metallic ores: 44.9 tons, 541,900 cars
• Coal: 8.8 tons, 74,000 cars
• Chemicals: 4.0 tons, 40,500 cars
• Grain: 2.5 tons, 24,700 cars
• Intermodal: 2.1 tons, 147,200 cars
• Other: 9.6 tons, 145,800 cars
• TOTAL: 71.9M tons, 974,100 cars

Class I Railroads

• BNSF: 1,711
• Canadian National: 378
• CPKC: 1,702
• Union Pacific: 644
• TOTAL: 4,435

Short Line Railroads

• Cloquet Terminal Railroad: 4
• Ellis & Eastern Railroad: 40
• Minnesota Commercial Railway: 86
• Minnesota Northern Railroad: 192
• Minnesota Prairie Line: 94
• Minnesota, Dakota & Western Railway: 4
• Northern Lines Railway: 25
• Northern Plains Railroad: 43
• Otter Tail Valley Railroad: 81
• Progressive Rail: 97
• Rapid City Pierre & Eastern Railroad: 140
• Red River Valley & Western Railroad: 32
• St. Croix Valley Railroad: 36
• Twin Cities & Western Railroad: 189
• TOTAL: 1,063