• Freight Railroad Employees: 2,455
  • Freight Railroads: 10
  • Freight Rail Mileage: 1,730
  • Trucks off the Road: It would have taken 6.7 million trucks to handle the freight that moved by rail in Arizona in 2022.

Freight Rail Traffic

Tons in millions.

Originated

  • Intermodal: 1.8 tons, 115,400 cars
  • Stone, clay, & glass products: 0.7 tons, 6,500 cars
  • Waste & scrap: 0.6 tons, 6,300 cars
  • Metallic ores: 0.6 tons, 6,200 cars
  • Steel products: 0.4 tons, 4,300 cars
  • Other: 0.8 tons, 11,200 cars
  • TOTAL: 4.8M tons, 149,900 cars

Terminated

  • Coal: 7.7 tons, 64,000 cars
  • Chemicals: 3.3 tons, 34,000 cars
  • Intermodal: 1.6 tons, 115,400 cars
  • Grain: 1.5 tons, 14,400 cars
  • Stone, clay, & glass products: 1.5 tons, 14,400 cars
  • Other: 7.3 tons, 105,200 cars
  • TOTAL: 22.9M tons, 347,300 cars

Freight Railroad Miles

Class I Railroads

  • BNSF: 659
  • Union Pacific: 691
  • TOTAL: 1,350

Short Line Railroads

  • Apache Railway: 42
  • Arizona & California Railroad: 172
  • Arizona Eastern Railway: 208
  • Clarkdale Arizona Central Railroad: 38
  • Copper Basin Railway: 61
  • Drake Switching Company: 1
  • Kingman Terminal Railroad: 3
  • San Pedro Valley Railroad: 7
  • TOTAL: 532

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.