• Freight Railroad Employees: 728
  • Freight Railroads: 9
  • Freight Rail Mileage: 728
  • Trucks off the Road: It would have taken 4 million trucks to handle the freight that moved by rail in Maryland in 2022.

Freight Rail Traffic

Tons in millions.

Originated

  • Waste & scrap: 1.4 tons, 14,100 cars
  • Cement: 0.9 tons, 8,400 cars
  • Intermodal: 0.6 tons, 42,300 cars
  • Coal: 0.3 tons, 3,000 cars
  • Metallic ores: 0.3 tons, 2,900 cars
  • Other: 1.5 tons, 22,100 cars
  • TOTAL: 5.0M tons, 92,800 cars

Terminated

  • Coal: 28.1 tons, 244,600 cars
  • Crushed stone & sand: 1.8 tons, 17,500 cars
  • Chemicals: 1.4 tons, 14,900 cars
  • Motor vehicles & parts: 0.9 tons, 41,300 cars
  • Lumber & wood prod.: 0.7 tons, 7,400 cars
  • Other: 3.5 tons, 89,300 cars
  • TOTAL: 36.4M tons, 415,000 cars

Freight Rail Miles

Class I Railroads

  • CSX: 519
  • Norfolk Southern: 259
  • TOTAL: 778

Short Line Railroads

  • Canton Railroad: 6
  • Delmarva Central Railroad: 41
  • Maryland & Delaware Railroad: 101
  • Maryland Midland Railway: 80
  • Tradepoint Rail: 12
  • Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway: 88
  • Winchester & Western Railroad: 2
  • TOTAL: 330

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.