• Freight Railroad Employees: 2,445
  • Freight Railroads: 15
  • Freight Rail Mileage: 2,616
  • Trucks off the Road: It would have taken 11.3 million trucks to handle the freight that moved by rail in Kentucky in 2022.

Freight Rail Traffic

Tons in millions.

Originated

  • Coal: 13.0 tons, 114,300 cars
  • Chemicals: 2.5 tons, 27,300 cars
  • Motor vehicles & parts: 2.4 tons, 98,000 cars
  • Crushed stone & sand: 1.1 tons, 14,800 cars
  • Stone, clay, & glass pr.: 1.0 tons, 11,300 cars
  • Other: 6.1 tons, 145,000 cars
  • TOTAL: 26.2M tons, 410,800 cars

Terminated

  • Coal: 13.0 tons, 110,300 cars
  • Chemicals: 2.7 tons, 30,100 cars
  • Petr. & coal products: 2.2 tons, 22,800 cars
  • Steel products: 1.7 tons, 19,600 cars
  • Intermodal: 1.1 tons, 75,400 cars
  • Other: 4.9 tons, 80,300 cars
  • TOTAL: 25.5M tons, 338,300 cars

Freight Rail Miles

Class I Railroads

  • BNSF: 98
  • Canadian National: 98
  • CSX: 1,578
  • Norfolk Southern: 429
  • Union Pacific: 12
  • TOTAL: 2,215

Short Line Railroads

  • Fredonia Valley Railroad: 10
  • Knoxville and Cumberland Gap Railroad: 2
  • KWT Railway: 12
  • Louisville & Indiana Railroad: 4
  • Paducah & Louisville Railway: 280
  • R. J. Corman Railroad – Bardstown Line: 20
  • R. J. Corman Railroad – Central Kentucky Lines: 148
  • R. J. Corman Railroad – Memphis Line: 77
  • Tennken Railroad: 9
  • Transkentucky Transportation Railroad: 50
  • TOTAL: 612

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.