• Freight Railroad Employees: 4,779
  • Freight Railroads: 45
  • Freight Rail Mileage: 3,887
  • Trucks off the Road: It would have taken 16.5 million trucks to handle the freight that moved by rail in Indiana in 2022.

Freight Rail Traffic

Tons in millions.

Originated

  • Coal: 12.2 tons, 105,000 cars
  • Steel products: 11.2 tons, 122,100 cars
  • Grain: 9.0 tons, 84,700 cars
  • Food products: 8.0 tons, 79,000 cars
  • Chemicals: 3.8 tons, 39,500 cars
  • Other: 13.4 tons, 287,900 cars
  • TOTAL: 57.6M tons, 718,100 cars

Terminated

  • Coal: 20.9 tons, 182,000 cars
  • Steel products: 6.4 tons, 67,400 cars
  • Waste & scrap: 5.9 tons, 62,900 cars
  • Chemicals: 5.0 tons, 50,200 cars
  • Petr. & coal products: 3.2 tons, 46,900 cars
  • Other: 14.7 tons, 245,800 cars
  • TOTAL: 56.1M tons, 655,200 cars

Freight Rail Miles

Class I Railroads

  • Canadian National: 103
  • CPKC: 154
  • CSX: 1,411
  • Norfolk Southern: 1,440
  • Union Pacific: 19
  • TOTAL: 3,127

Short Line Railroads

  • Burns Harbor Railroad : 4
  • Central Indiana & Western Railroad: 10
  • Central Railroad Company of Indiana: 63
  • Central Railroad Company of Indianapolis: 60
  • Chesapeake and Indiana Railroad: 28
  • Chicago, Ft. Wayne & Eastern Railroad: 196
  • Chicago, South Shore & South Bend Railroad: 110
  • Connersville Northern Railroad: 5
  • Decatur & Eastern Illinois Railroad : 18
  • Dubois County Railroad: 7
  • Elkhart & Western Railroad: 35
  • Evansville Western Railway: 78
  • Gary Railway: 4
  • Grand Elk Railroad: 13
  • Hoosier Southern Railroad: 22
  • Indian Creek Railroad: 5
  • Indiana & Ohio Railway: 10
  • Indiana Eastern Railroad: 26
  • Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad: 41
  • Indiana Northeastern Railroad: 44
  • Indiana Rail Road: 305
  • Indiana Southern Railroad: 220
  • Indiana Southwestern Railway: 8
  • Kankakee, Beaverville & Southern Railroad: 64
  • Kendallville Terminal Railway: 2
  • Lakeshore Terminal Railroad: 1
  • Louisville & Indiana Railroad: 112
  • Lucas Oil Rail Lines: 8
  • Madison Railroad: 25
  • MG Rail: 4
  • Napoleon, Defiance and Western Railway: 3
  • New Castle Southern Railroad: 21
  • New Era Railroad: 27
  • Ohio Valley Railroad: 3
  • River Ridge Railroad: 6
  • Rochester & Erie Railway: 12
  • South Chicago & Indiana Harbor Rwy: 6
  • Squaw Creek Southern Railroad: 44
  • Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway: 162
  • Vermillion Valley Railroad: 8
  • TOTAL: 1,820

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.