- Freight Railroad Employees: 9,875
- Freight Railroads: 48
- Freight Rail Mileage: 6,769
- Trucks off the Road: It would have taken 23.1 million trucks to handle the freight that moved by rail in Illinois in 2022.
Freight Rail Traffic
Tons in millions.
Originated
- Intermodal: 45.7 tons, 3,124,100 cars
- Grain: 25.6 tons, 242,200 cars
- Coal: 21.7 tons, 184,900 cars
- Crushed stone & sand: 10.2 tons, 90,300 cars
- Food products: 9.6 tons, 96,600 cars
- Other: 19.5 tons, 263,600 cars
- TOTAL: 132.4M tons, 4,001,700 cars
Terminated
- Intermodal: 42.6 tons, 3,176,500 cars
- Coal: 18.3 tons, 153,300 cars
- Chemicals: 10.1 tons, 103,700 cars
- Food products: 9.6 tons, 99,700 cars
- Grain: 5.0 tons, 48,800 cars
- Other: 16.8 tons, 255,800 cars
- TOTAL: 102.4M tons, 3,837,800 cars
Freight Rail Miles
Class I Railroads
- BNSF: 1,538
- Canadian National: 1,276
- CPKC: 571
- CSX: 698
- Norfolk Southern: 1,261
- Union Pacific: 2,368
- TOTAL: 7,712
Short Line Railroads
- A & R Terminal Railroad: 2
- Ag Valley Railroad: 3
- Belt Railway Company of Chicago: 28
- Bloomer Line: 50
- Burlington Junction Railway: 20
- Chicago Junction Railway: 2
- Chicago Rail Link: 72
- Chicago Sugar Express Railroad : 1
- Chicago, Ft. Wayne & Eastern Railroad: 8
- Chicago, South Shore & South Bend Railroad: 25
- Chicago, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad: 3
- Cicero Central Railroad : 1
- Crab Orchard & Egyptian Railway: 14
- Decatur & Eastern Illinois Railroad : 164
- Decatur Junction Railway: 21
- Effingham Railroad: 5
- Elwood Joliet & Southern Railroad: 2
- Evansville Western Railway: 46
- Great Lakes Terminal Railroad: 2
- Illinois & Midland Railroad: 189
- Illinois Railway: 133
- Illinois Terminal Belt Railroad: 11
- Illinois Western Railroad: 2
- Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad: 69
- Indiana Rail Road: 119
- Iowa Interstate Railroad: 218
- Kankakee, Beaverville & Southern Railroad: 102
- Keokuk Junction Railway: 130
- KM Railways: 2
- Manufacturers Junction Railway: 6
- Missouri North Central Railroad: 2
- Peru Industrial Railroad: 3
- Pioneer Industrial Railway: 3
- Port Harbor Railroad: 3
- Riverport Railroad: 4
- South Chicago & Indiana Harbor Rwy: 8
- Tazewell & Peoria Railroad: 18
- Terminal Railroad Assn. of St. Louis: 17
- Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway: 202
- Vandalia Railroad: 4
- Vermillion Valley Railroad: 2
- Wisconsin & Southern Railroad: 108
- TOTAL: 1,824
State Reps
- BNSF: Peter Skosey, Executive Director, Public Affairs, Peter.Skosey@bnsf.com
- Canadian National: Kevin Donahue, State & Local Affairs Manager, Kevin.Donahue@cn.ca
- CPKC: Ryan Nonnemaker, Director, U.S. Government Affairs, Ryan.Nonnemaker@cpkcr.com
- Norfolk Southern: Herbert Smith, Executive Director, Government Relations, herbert.smith@nscorp.com
- Union Pacific: Tom Evenson, Sr. Director, Public Affairs, tom.evenson@up.com
- CSX: Tom Livingston, Vice President Government & Community Affairs, Tom_Livingston@CSX.com
- G&W: Charles Hunter, AVP, Government Affairs, Charles.Hunter@gwrr.com
- Watco: Ken Lucht, AVP, Government & Industry Relations, klucht@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.