
- Freight Railroad Employees: 1,770
- Freight Railroads: 14
- Freight Rail Mileage: 2,541
- Trucks off the Road: It would have taken 7.4 million trucks to handle the freight that moved by rail in Colorado in 2022.
Freight Rail Traffic
Tons in millions.
Originated
- Coal: 5.1 tons, 46,700 cars
- Intermodal: 1.6 tons, 112,300 cars
- Cement: 1.4 tons, 13,400 cars
- Farm products: 1.0 tons, 9,000 cars
- Waste & scrap: 0.9 tons, 9,400 cars
- Other: 4.2 tons, 51,500 cars
- TOTAL: 14.1M tons, 242,300 cars
Terminated
- Coal: 9.4 tons, 83,400 cars
- Crushed stone & sand: 5.3 tons, 46,700 cars
- Stone, clay, & glass pr.: 1.9 tons, 17,600 cars
- Intermodal: 1.6 tons, 121,700 cars
- Grain: 1.5 tons, 13,700 cars
- Other: 8.4 tons, 121,200 cars
- TOTAL: 28.0M tons, 404,200 cars
Freight Rail Miles
Class I Railroads
- BNSF: 1,338
- Union Pacific: 1,505
- TOTAL: 2,843
Short Line Railroads
- Cimarron Valley Railroad: 28
- Colorado & Wyoming Railway: 5
- Colorado Pacific Rio Grande Railroad: 154
- CWC Rail: 122
- Denver Rock Island Railroad: 6
- Great Western Railway of Colorado: 80
- Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad: 3
- Kyle Railroad: 84
- Nebraska, Kansas, & Colorado Railway: 68
- Rock & Rail: 55
- San Luis Central Railroad: 13
- Utah Railway: 32
- TOTAL: 650
State Reps
- BNSF: Andy Williams, Executive Director, Public Affairs, Andy.Williams@bnsf.com
- Union Pacific: Nathan Anderson, Sr. Director, Public Affairs, Nanderson@UP.com
- G&W: Ross Lane, AVP, Government Affairs, ross.lane@gwrr.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.