• Freight Railroad Employees: 2,675
  • Freight Railroads: 24
  • Freight Rail Mileage: 3,210
  • Trucks off the Road: It would have taken 8 million trucks to handle the freight that moved by rail in Alabama in 2022.

Freight Rail Traffic

Tons in millions.

Originated

  • Coal: 7.7 tons, 65,300 cars
  • Steel products: 5.4 tons, 60,300 cars
  • Crushed stone & sand: 5.2 tons, 46,300 cars
  • Cement: 3.0 tons, 28,400 cars
  • Pulp & paper: 4.1 tons, 53,400 cars
  • Other: 12.9 tons, 260,100 cars
  • TOTAL: 38.3M tons, 513,900 cars

Terminated

  • Coal: 19.2 tons, 162,600 cars
  • Chemicals: 3.7 tons, 39,000 cars
  • Grain: 3.1 tons, 29,000 cars
  • Steel products: 2.9 tons, 33,200 cars
  • Waste & scrap: 2.7 tons, 28,900 cars
  • Other: 11.1 tons, 190,200 cars
  • TOTAL: 42.7M tons, 482,800 cars

Freight Railroad Miles

Class I Railroads

  • BNSF: 231
  • Canadian National: 22
  • CPKC: 44
  • CSX: 1,011
  • Norfolk Southern: 1,304
  • TOTAL: 2,612

Short Line Railroads

  • Alabama & Gulf Coast Railway: 374
  • Alabama & Tennessee River Railway: 120
  • Alabama Export Railroad: 12
  • Alabama Southern Railroad: 68
  • Alabama Warrior Railway: 2
  • Autauga Northern Railroad: 46
  • Bay Line Railroad: 50
  • Birmingham Terminal Railway: 76
  • Conecuh Valley Railroad: 14
  • Eastern Alabama Railway: 28
  • Georgia Southwestern Railroad: 17
  • Luxapalila Valley Railroad: 23
  • Meridian and Bigbee Railroad: 158
  • R.J. Corman Railroad – Childersburg Line: 13
  • Sequatchie Valley Switching: 4
  • Tennessee Southern Railroad: 20
  • Terminal Railway Alabama State Docks: 8
  • Three Notch Railway: 36
  • Wiregrass Central Railway: 22
  • TOTAL: 1,091

State Reps

Note: Data are for 2023 except for rail employment and truck equivalents, which are 2022. Total miles shown for the state exclude trackage rights, but miles shown for individual railroads include trackage rights. Some mileage and employment figures are estimates. Rail traffic figures are based on AAR analysis of industry data.