• Freight Railroad Employees: 538
  • Freight Railroads: 12
  • Freight Rail Mileage: 760
  • Trucks off the Road: It would have taken 750,000 trucks to handle the freight that moved by rail in Massachusetts in 2022.

Freight Rail Traffic

Tons in millions.

Originated

  • Waste & scrap: 1.8 tons, 18,900 cars
  • Intermodal: 1.0 tons, 81,800 cars
  • Stone, clay, & glass pr.: 0.1 tons, 1,200 cars
  • Chemicals: 0.1 tons, 1,500 cars
  • Other: 0.2 tons, 2,400 cars
  • TOTAL: 3.2M tons, 105,800 cars

Terminated

  • Intermodal: 1.4 tons, 99,400 cars
  • Food products: 1.0 tons, 11,700 cars
  • Chemicals: 0.9 tons, 9,900 cars
  • Lumber & wood prod.: 0.7 tons, 8,000 cars
  • Motor vehicles & parts: 0.7 tons, 34,300 cars
  • Other: 2.5 tons, 30,800 cars
  • TOTAL: 7.3M tons, 194,200 cars

Freight Rail Miles

Class I Railroads

  • CSX: 329
  • TOTAL: 329

Short Line Railroads

  • Berkshire & Eastern Railroad: 188
  • Connecticut Southern Railroad: 7
  • East Brookfield & Spencer Railroad: 4
  • Fore River Transportation Corp.: 3
  • Grafton & Upton Railroad: 23
  • Housatonic Railroad: 38
  • Massachusetts Central Railroad: 25
  • Massachusetts Coastal Railroad: 135
  • New England Central Railroad: 60
  • Pioneer Valley Railroad: 18
  • Providence and Worcester Railroad: 123
  • TOTAL: 624

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.