• Freight Railroad Employees: 3,542
  • Freight Railroads: 16
  • Freight Rail Mileage: 2,691
  • Trucks off the Road: It would have taken 3.8 million trucks to handle the freight that moved by rail in Florida in 2022.

Freight Rail Traffic

Tons in millions.

Originated

  • Nonmetallic minerals: 9.5 tons, 89,100 cars
  • Intermodal: 5.2 tons, 458,900 cars
  • Chemicals: 5.0 tons, 52,500 cars
  • Crushed stone & sand: 3.3 tons, 30,300 cars
  • Pulp & paper: 1.5 tons, 18,300 cars
  • Other: 7.0 tons, 124,600 cars
  • TOTAL: 31.4M tons, 773,600 cars

Terminated

  • Nonmetallic minerals: 18.9 tons, 175,400 cars
  • Intermodal: 7.2 tons, 528,700 cars
  • Chemicals: 6.6 tons, 69,700 cars
  • Coal: 3.7 tons, 31,600 cars
  • Food products: 2.6 tons, 30,800 cars
  • Other: 15.1 tons, 279,700 cars
  • TOTAL: 54.1M tons, 1,115,800 cars

Freight Rail Miles

Class I Railroads

  • CSX: 1,183
  • Norfolk Southern: 148
  • TOTAL: 1,331

Short Line Railroads

  • Alabama & Gulf Coast Railway: 51
  • AN Railway: 36
  • Bay Line Railroad: 138
  • First Coast Railroad: 32
  • Florida Central Railroad: 68
  • Florida East Coast Railway: 386
  • Florida Gulf & Atlantic Railroad : 371
  • Florida Midland Railroad: 28
  • Florida Northern Railroad: 104
  • Georgia & Florida Railway: 42
  • Jacksonville Port Terminal Railroad: 10
  • Port Manatee Railroad: 2
  • Seminole Gulf Railway: 118
  • South Central Florida Express: 171
  • TOTAL: 1,557

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.