• Freight Railroad Employees: 4,273
  • Freight Railroads: 18
  • Freight Rail Mileage: 4,701
  • Trucks off the Road: It would have taken 17 million trucks to handle the freight that moved by rail in Kansas in 2022.

Freight Rail Traffic

Tons in millions.

Originated

  • Grain: 10.1 tons, 94,800 cars
  • Chemicals: 2.7 tons, 28,400 cars
  • Intermodal: 2.7 tons, 153,300 cars
  • Food products: 2.5 tons, 25,700 cars
  • Cement: 1.5 tons, 14,600 cars
  • Other: 5.2 tons, 91,100 cars
  • TOTAL: 24.7M tons, 407,900 cars

Terminated

  • Coal: 7.9 tons, 66,000 cars
  • Grain: 3.3 tons, 30,900 cars
  • Intermodal: 2.4 tons, 177,400 cars
  • Chemicals: 1.6 tons, 16,100 cars
  • Food products: 1.4 tons, 14,400 cars
  • Other: 6.0 tons, 90,800 cars
  • TOTAL: 22.6M tons, 395,400 cars

Freight Rail Miles

Class I Railroads

  • BNSF: 1,583
  • CPKC: 18
  • Norfolk Southern: 2
  • Union Pacific: 2,199
  • TOTAL: 3,802

Short Line Railroads

  • Blackwell Northern Gateway Railroad: 18
  • Blue Rapids Railway: 10
  • Boot Hill & Western Railway: 10
  • Cimarron Valley Railroad: 183
  • Garden City Western Railway: 36
  • Hutchinson & Northern Railway: 5
  • Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad: 833
  • Kaw River Railroad: 28
  • Kyle Railroad: 471
  • Nebraska, Kansas, & Colorado Railway: 125
  • Ottawa Northern Railroad: 11
  • South Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad: 282
  • V & S Railway: 27
  • Wichita Terminal Association: 7
  • TOTAL: 2,046

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.