• Freight Railroad Employees: 142
  • Freight Railroads: 6
  • Freight Rail Mileage: 219
  • Trucks off the Road: It would have taken approximately 253,000 additional trucks to handle the 4.5 million tons of freight that railroads terminated in Delaware in 2023.

Freight Rail Traffic

Tons in millions.

Originated

  • Chemicals: 0.2 tons, 1,800 cars
  • Nonmetallic minerals: 0.1 tons, 1,100 cars
  • Petr. & coal products: 0.1 tons, 1,000 cars
  • Other: 0.1 tons, 2,200 cars
  • TOTAL: 0.5M tons, 6,100 cars

Terminated

  • Crushed stone & sand: 1.1 tons, 10,000 cars
  • Refined petrol. prod.: 0.9 tons, 10,700 cars
  • Food products: 0.5 tons, 4,800 cars
  • Chemicals: 0.5 tons, 5,000 cars
  • Other: 1.6 tons, 25,000 cars
  • TOTAL: 4.5M tons, 55,500 cars

Freight Rail Miles

Class I Railroads

  • CSX: 42
  • Norfolk Southern: 82
  • TOTAL: 124

Short Line Railroads

  • Conrail: 1
  • Delmarva Central Railroad: 138
  • East Penn Railroad: 9
  • Maryland & Delaware Railroad: 14
  • TOTAL: 162

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.