
- Freight Railroad Employees: 2,401
- Freight Railroads: 23
- Freight Rail Mileage: 2,502
- Trucks off the Road: It would have taken 8.6 million trucks to handle the freight that moved by rail in Arkansas in 2022.
Freight Rail Traffic
Tons in millions.
Originated
- Crushed stone & sand: 6.5 tons, 57,000 cars
- Steel products: 3.2 tons, 35,300 cars
- Intermodal: 1.7 tons, 118,800 cars
- Lumber & wood products: 1.5 tons, 16,500 cars
- Food products: 1.1 tons, 11,200 cars
- Other: 5.6 tons, 68,100 cars
- Total: 19.5M tons, 306,800 cars
Terminated
- Coal: 11.1 tons, 91,900 cars
- Waste & scrap: 2.3 tons, 24,000 cars
- Food products: 2.2 tons, 22,500 cars
- Chemicals: 2.0 tons, 21,000 cars
- Grain: 1.9 tons, 18,500 cars
- Other: 5.1 tons, 164,300 cars
- Total: 24.7M tons, 342,200 cars
Freight Railroad Miles
Class I Railroads
- BNSF: 1,056
- CPKC: 162
- Union Pacific: 1,324
- TOTAL: 2,542
Short Line Railroads
- Arkansas & Missouri Railroad: 117
- Arkansas Midland Railroad: 140
- Arkansas Southern Railroad: 56
- Arkansas, Louisiana & Mississippi Railroad: 73
- Bauxite & Northern Railway: 7
- Camden & Southern Railroad: 3
- Dardanelle & Russellville Railroad: 5
- De Queen & Eastern Railroad: 47
- Delta Valley & Southern Railway: 2
- El Dorado & Wesson Railway: 6
- Fort Smith Railroad: 24
- Kiamichi Railroad: 36
- Little Rock & Western Railway: 87
- Little Rock Port Authority Railroad: 12
- Louisiana & North West Railroad: 24
- Missouri & Northern Arkansas Railroad: 126
- North Louisiana & Arkansas Railroad: 46
- Ouachita Railroad: 13
- Prescott and Northwestern Railroad: 9
- Warren & Saline River Railroad: 3
- TOTAL: 836
State Reps
- BNSF: Michael Garriga, Executive Director, Public Affairs, Michael.Garriga@bnsf.com
- CPKC: Ryan Nonnemaker, Director, U.S. Government Affairs, Ryan.Nonnemaker@cpkcr.com
- Union Pacific: Drew Tessier, Sr. Director, Public Affairs, drewtessier@up.com
- G&W: Joe Arbona, AVP, Government Affairs, joe.arbona@gwrr.com
- Watco: Ken Lucht: AVP, Government & Industry Relations, klucht@watco.com
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.