• Freight Railroad Employees: 2,506
  • Freight Railroads: 21
  • Freight Rail Mileage: 3,023
  • Trucks off the Road: It would have taken 7.7 million trucks to handle the freight that moved by rail in Louisiana in 2022.

Freight Rail Traffic

Tons in millions.

Originated

  • Chemicals: 26.8 tons, 284,700 cars
  • Refined petrol. prod.: 4.7 tons, 57,300 cars
  • Pulp & paper: 3.6 tons, 47,100 cars
  • Food products: 2.5 tons, 25,400 cars
  • Lumber & wood prod.: 2.4 tons, 26,300 cars
  • Other: 3.6 tons, 61,000 cars
  • TOTAL: 43.5M tons, 501,900 cars

Terminated

  • Coal: 7.8 tons, 66,100 cars
  • Chemicals: 7.1 tons, 75,900 cars
  • Grain: 5.1 tons, 49,300 cars
  • Food products: 3.2 tons, 33,200 cars
  • Petr. & coal products: 3.0 tons, 34,700 cars
  • Other: 13.6 tons, 175,600 cars
  • TOTAL: 39.9M tons, 434,800 cars

Freight Rail Miles

Class I Railroads

  • BNSF: 346
  • Canadian National: 227
  • CPKC: 750
  • CSX: 43
  • Norfolk Southern: 76
  • Union Pacific: 1,140
  • TOTAL: 2,582

Short Line Railroads

  • Acadiana Railway: 83
  • Arkansas, Louisiana & Mississippi Railroad: 55
  • Baton Rouge Southern Railroad: 26
  • Bogalusa & Northern Railway: 1
  • Delta Southern Railroad: 37
  • Dutchtown Southern Railroad: 2
  • Geaux Geaux Railroad: 26
  • Louisiana & Delta Railroad: 298
  • Louisiana & North West Railroad: 44
  • Louisiana Southern Railroad: 195
  • New Orleans & Gulf Coast Railway: 32
  • New Orleans Public Belt Railroad: 26
  • North Louisiana & Arkansas Railroad: 16
  • Port Rail: 11
  • Timber Rock Railroad: 25
  • TOTAL: 877

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.