• Freight Railroad Employees: 2,696
• Freight Railroads: 19
• Freight Rail Mileage: 3,836
• Trucks off the Road: It would have taken 14.5 million trucks to handle the freight that moved by rail in Iowa in 2022.

Originated

• Food products: 20.8 tons, 205,100 cars
• Chemicals: 16.0 tons, 168,600 cars
• Grain: 9.7 tons, 91,500 cars
• Crushed stone & sand: 2.1 tons, 18,800 cars
• Steel products: 0.7 tons, 8,100 cars
• Other: 3.9 tons, 80,500 cars
• TOTAL: 53.3M tons, 572,500 cars

Terminated

• Coal: 13.2 tons, 110,200 cars
• Chemicals: 4.4 tons, 45,300 cars
• Grain: 2.2 tons, 21,900 cars
• Food products: 1.8 tons, 18,500 cars
• Stone, clay, & glass pr.: 1.0 tons, 9,900 cars
• Other: 5.7 tons, 105,200 cars
• TOTAL: 28.3M tons, 311,100 cars

Class I Railroads

• BNSF: 659
• Canadian National: 572
• CPKC: 673
• Norfolk Southern: 43
• Union Pacific: 1,553
• TOTAL: 3,500

Short Line Railroads

• Boone & Scenic Valley Railroad: 2
• Burlington Junction Railway: 6
• Cedar Rapids & Iowa City Railway: 57
• D&I Railroad: 67
• Davenport Industrial Railroad : 3
• Iowa & Middletown Railway : 4
• Iowa Interstate Railroad: 355
• Iowa Northern Railway: 209
• Iowa River Railroad: 9
• Iowa Southern Railway: 35
• Iowa Traction Railway: 10
• Keokuk Junction Railway: 4
• Mount Vernon Railroad: 3
• Waterloo Railroad: 7
• TOTAL: 771