- Freight Railroad Employees: 2,382
- Freight Railroads: 29
- Freight Rail Mileage: 3,344
- Trucks off the Road: It would have taken 4.3 million trucks to handle the freight that moved by rail in Michigan in 2022.
Freight Rail Traffic
Tons in millions.
Originated
- Motor vehicles & parts: 3.2 tons, 172,600 cars
- Grain: 2.9 tons, 27,300 cars
- Steel products: 2.6 tons, 27,300 cars
- Intermodal: 2.3 tons, 190,300 cars
- Metallic ores: 1.7 tons, 17,700 cars
- Other: 9.2 tons, 120,800 cars
- TOTAL: 22.0M tons, 556,100 cars
Terminated
- Coal: 8.5 tons, 69,700 cars
- Steel products: 3.4 tons, 37,100 cars
- Chemicals: 3.1 tons, 32,200 cars
- Intermodal: 3.0 tons, 216,400 cars
- Petr. & coal products: 1.3 tons, 20,200 cars
- Other: 12.6 tons, 115,800 cars
- TOTAL: 31.8M tons, 491,300 cars
Freight Rail Miles
Class I Railroads
- Canadian National: 792
- CPKC: 80
- CSX: 478
- Norfolk Southern: 489
- TOTAL: 1,839
Short Line Railroads
- Adrian & Blissfield Rail Road: 20
- Ann Arbor Railroad: 47
- Charlotte Southern Railroad: 3
- Conrail: 96
- Delray Connecting Railroad: 2
- Detroit Connecting Railroad: 2
- Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad: 263
- Grand Elk Railroad: 110
- Grand Rapids Eastern Railroad: 27
- Great Lakes Central Railroad: 396
- Hamilton Northwestern Railroad : 6
- Huron & Eastern Railway: 394
- Indiana & Ohio Railway: 44
- Indiana Northeastern Railroad: 50
- Jackson & Lansing Railroad: 47
- Lake State Railway: 375
- Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad: 25
- Lapeer Industrial Railroad: 2
- Marquette Rail: 162
- Michigan Shore Railroad: 68
- Michigan Southern Railroad: 21
- Mid-Michigan Railroad: 33
- Mineral Range Railroad: 14
- Missouri North Central Railroad: 1
- West Michigan Railroad: 10
- TOTAL: 2,218
State Reps
- Canadian National: Kevin Donahue, State & Local Affairs Manager, Kevin.Donahue@cn.ca and Jeffrey Price, State & Local Affairs Manager, Jeffrey.Price@cn.ca
- CPKC: Larry Lloyd, AVP, U.S. Government Affairs, Larry.Lloyd@cpkcr.com
- CSX: Rusty Orben, Resident VP, Government Relations, rusty_orben@csx.com
- Norfolk Southern: Herbert Smith, Executive Director, Government Relations, herbert.smith@nscorp.com
- G&W: Charles Hunter, AVP, Government Affairs, Charles.Hunter@gwrr.com
- Watco: Curtis Sloan, VP, Policy & Sustainability, curtis.sloan@watco.com
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.