- Freight Railroad Employees: 1,141
- Freight Railroads: 8
- Freight Rail Mileage: 1,363
- Trucks off the Road: It would have taken 3 million trucks to handle the freight that moved by rail in Utah in 2024.
Freight Rail in Utah
What Moves by Rail
2025 Data
Originated in Utah
| Commodity | Million Tons | Units |
| Crude oil, nat. gasoline | 4.4 | 49,400 |
| Chemicals | 4.0 | 35,300 |
| Petroleum products | 1.1 | 13,900 |
| Coal | 0.7 | 6,600 |
| Metallic ores | 0.7 | 6,600 |
| All other carloads | 2.4 | 24,500 |
| Intermodal | 1.9 | 118,700 |
| TOTAL | 15.3M | 255,000 |
Terminated in Utah
| Commodity | Million Tons | Units |
| Chemicals | 3.2 | 27,700 |
| Petroleum products | 1.1 | 13,700 |
| Coal | 0.9 | 7,900 |
| Waste & scrap | 0.9 | 9,000 |
| Lumber & wood | 0.8 | 8,100 |
| All other carloads | 3.6 | 48,800 |
| Intermodal | 1.9 | 136,400 |
| TOTAL | 12.3M | 251,600 |
Carriers Operating in Utah
Note: In the list of railroads, mileage includes trackage rights. For Class I railroads, mileage is from the railroads’ R-1 reports to the STB. For short lines, mileage is an AAR estimate based on a variety of sources. The map shows rail lines whose primary owner is a freight railroad or Amtrak. The owner may not be the only operator of the line. The map is based on the FRA’s North American Rail Network (NARN) dataset. Low-mileage short lines may not be labelled on the map. Information current as of mid-2026. Please report any updates, errors, or omissions to policy@aar.org.
Class I Railroad Mileage
| BNSF Railway | 437 |
| Union Pacific Railroad | 1,265 |
Short Line Railroads
| Cando Bingham & Garfield Railroad | 17 |
| Cando Tooele Railroad | 7 |
| Comstock Mountain Lion Railway | 15 |
| Salt Lake Garfield and Western Railway | 16 |
| Utah Central Railway | 10 |
| Utah Railway | 399 |
Contacts in Utah
Government-affairs leads for the railroads operating in the state.
Note: Data are for 2025 except rail employment and truck equivalents, which are 2024. Total state mileage excludes trackage rights. Data are AAR estimates based on information from various sources.