• Freight Railroad Employees: 419
  • Freight Railroads: 9
  • Freight Rail Mileage: 1,011
  • Trucks off the Road: It would have taken 261,000 trucks to handle the freight that moved by rail in Maine in 2022.

Freight Rail Traffic

Tons in millions.

Originated

  • Pulp & paper: 0.9 tons, 11,400 cars
  • Lumber & wood prod.: 0.3 tons, 3,100 cars
  • Stone, clay, & glass pr.: 0.2 tons, 2,300 cars
  • Waste & scrap: 0.1 tons, 1,200 cars
  • Intermodal: 0.0 tons, 1,400 cars
  • Other: 0.5 tons, 9,300 cars
  • TOTAL: 2.1M tons, 28,700 cars

Terminated

  • Refined petrol. prod.: 0.5 tons, 6,700 cars
  • Chemicals: 0.3 tons, 3,000 cars
  • Stone, clay, & glass pr.: 0.2 tons, 2,400 cars
  • Pulp & paper: 0.2 tons, 2,700 cars
  • Food products: 0.1 tons, 1,000 cars
  • Other: 0.4 tons, 7,200 cars
  • Total: 1.7M tons, 23,000 cars

Freight Rail Miles

Class I Railroads

  • CPKC: 174
  • CSX: 397
  • TOTAL: 571

Short Line Railroads

  • Berkshire & Eastern Railroad: 0
  • Eastern Maine Railway: 176
  • Maine Northern Railway: 223
  • Midcoast Railservice: 59
  • New Hampshire Northcoast: 1
  • St. Lawrence & Atlantic Railroad: 93
  • Turners Island: 2
  • TOTAL: 554

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.