
- Freight Railroad Employees: 5,891
- Freight Railroads: 28
- Freight Rail Mileage: 4,633
- Trucks off the Road: It would have taken 8.7 million trucks to handle the freight that moved by rail in Georgia in 2022.
Freight Rail Traffic
Tons in millions.
Originated
- Crushed stone & sand: 13.7 tons, 125,100 cars
- Intermodal: 10.2 tons, 778,800 cars
- Stone, clay, & glass pr.: 3.1 tons, 31,500 cars
- Pulp & paper: 3.1 tons, 40,700 cars
- Lumber & wood prod.: 2.9 tons, 31,700 cars
- Other: 7.8 tons, 99,500 cars
- TOTAL: 40.9M tons, 1,107,200 cars
Terminated
- Intermodal: 10.9 tons, 800,700 cars
- Coal: 10.3 tons, 88,000 cars
- Chemicals: 7.8 tons, 82,100 cars
- Crushed stone & sand: 6.9 tons, 62,700 cars
- Grain: 6.0 tons, 56,100 cars
- Other: 19.0 tons, 253,900 cars
- TOTAL: 61.1M tons, 1,343,300 cars
Freight Rail Miles
Class I Railroads
- CSX: 1,538
- Norfolk Southern: 1,706
- TOTAL: 3,244
Short Line Railroads
- Adams-Warnock Railway: 1
- Athens Line: 17
- CaterParrott Railnet: 66
- Chattahoochee Industrial Railroad: 27
- Chattooga & Chickamauga Railway: 53
- Columbus & Chattahoochee Railroad: 32
- First Coast Railroad: 14
- Florida Gulf & Atlantic Railroad : 2
- Fulton County Railway: 11
- Georgia & Florida Railway: 204
- Georgia Central Railway: 211
- Georgia Northeastern Railroad: 100
- Georgia Southern Railway: 90
- Georgia Southwestern Railroad: 269
- Georgia Woodlands Railroad: 16
- Golden Isles Terminal Railroad: 13
- Great Walton Railroad: 10
- Hartwell Railroad: 58
- Heart of Georgia Railroad: 233
- Hilton & Albany Railroad: 60
- Riceboro Southern Railway: 37
- Sandersville Railroad: 10
- Savannah & Old Fort Railroad: 6
- Savannah Port Terminal Railroad: 18
- St. Mary’s Railroad: 13
- Valdosta Railway: 14
- TOTAL: 1,585
State Reps
- CSX: Craig Camuso, Regional VP, State Government Relations, Craig_Camuso@CSX.com
- Norfolk Southern: Conner Poe, AVP, Government Affairs, Conner.Poe@nscorp.com
- G&W: Joe Arbona, AVP, Government Affairs, joe.arbona@gwrr.com
- Watco: Ailsa von Dobeneck, AVP, Government Relations, ailsa@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.