• Freight Railroad Employees: 119
  • Freight Railroads: 8
  • Freight Rail Mileage: 571
  • Trucks off the Road: It would have taken 162,000 trucks to handle the freight that moved by rail in Connecticut in 2022.

Freight Rail Traffic

Tons in millions.

Originated

  • Waste & scrap: 1.3 tons, 13,500 cars
  • Crushed stone & sand: 0.8 tons, 7,500 cars
  • Other: 0.4 tons, 5,900 cars
  • TOTAL: 2.6M tons, 26,900 cars

Terminated

  • Lumber & wood prod.: 0.3 tons, 3,000 cars
  • Steel products: 0.3 tons, 2,900 cars
  • Stone, clay, & glass pr.: 0.2 tons, 1,700 cars
  • Chemicals: 0.1 tons, 1,600 cars
  • Food products: 0.1 tons, 1,500 cars
  • Other: 0.6 tons, 8,700 cars
  • TOTAL: 1.6M tons, 19,400 cars

Freight Rail Miles

Class I Railroads

  • CSX: 62
  • TOTAL: 62

Short Line Railroads

  • Berkshire & Eastern Railroad: 107
  • Central New England Railroad: 22
  • Connecticut Southern Railroad: 76
  • Housatonic Railroad: 89
  • Naugatuck Railroad: 20
  • New England Central Railroad: 61
  • Providence and Worcester Railroad: 346
  • TOTAL: 721

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.