• Freight Railroad Employees: 1,197
  • Freight Railroads: 11
  • Freight Rail Mileage: 1,609
  • Trucks off the Road: It would have taken 6.5 million trucks to handle the freight that moved by rail in Idaho in 2022.

Freight Rail Traffic

Tons in millions.

Originated

  • Food products: 2.2 tons, 24,200 cars
  • Nonmetallic minerals: 1.7 tons, 16,600 cars
  • Chemicals: 1.2 tons, 11,900 cars
  • Lumber & wood prod.: 1.0 tons, 11,300 cars
  • Farm products: 1.0 tons, 9,900 cars
  • Other: 0.8 tons, 11,800 cars
  • TOTAL: 7.8M tons, 85,700 cars

Terminated

  • Grain: 2.5 tons, 22,700 cars
  • Nonmetallic minerals: 2.2 tons, 21,800 cars
  • Chemicals: 2.1 tons, 22,100 cars
  • Food products: 1.5 tons, 14,300 cars
  • Refined petrol. prod.: 0.5 tons, 5,800 cars
  • Other: 2.0 tons, 28,900 cars
  • TOTAL: 10.8M tons, 115,700 cars

Freight Rail Miles

Class I Railroads

  • BNSF: 133
  • Union Pacific: 873
  • TOTAL: 1,006

Short Line Railroads

  • Boise Valley Railroad: 46
  • Bountiful Grain and Craig Mountain Railroad: 105
  • Eastern Idaho Railroad: 328
  • Great Northwest Railroad: 12
  • Idaho Northern & Pacific Railroad: 160
  • Montana Rail Link: 81
  • Pend Oreille Valley Railroad : 28
  • St. Maries River Railroad: 9
  • Washington, Idaho & Montana Railway : 18
  • TOTAL: 787

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.