
- Freight Railroad Employees: 1,812
- Freight Railroads: 28
- Freight Rail Mileage: 2,554
- Trucks off the Road: It would have taken 6.2 million trucks to handle the freight that moved by rail in Mississippi in 2022.
Freight Rail Traffic
Tons in millions.
Originated
- Chemicals: 2.5 tons, 26,400 cars
- Steel products: 1.9 tons, 19,200 cars
- Lumber & wood prod.: 1.3 tons, 13,900 cars
- Pulp & paper: 1.3 tons, 16,500 cars
- Petr. & coal products: 0.8 tons, 10,400 cars
- Other: 3.0 tons, 54,600 cars
- TOTAL: 10.8M tons, 140,900 cars
Terminated
- Chemicals: 2.2 tons, 23,700 cars
- Crushed stone & sand: 1.8 tons, 16,200 cars
- Grain: 1.8 tons, 17,600 cars
- Food products: 1.7 tons, 16,500 cars
- Waste & scrap: 1.6 tons, 17,500 cars
- Other: 5.7 tons, 68,000 cars
- TOTAL: 14.7M tons, 159,600 cars
Freight Rail Miles
Class I Railroads
- BNSF: 179
- Canadian National: 575
- CPKC: 607
- CSX: 94
- Norfolk Southern: 211
- TOTAL: 1,666
Short Line Railroads
- Alabama & Gulf Coast Railway: 51
- Alabama Southern Railroad: 35
- Columbus & Greenville Railway: 83
- Golden Triangle Railroad: 19
- Grenada Railroad: 218
- Gulf & Ship Island Railroad : 9
- Luxapalila Valley Railroad: 6
- Meridian and Bigbee Railroad: 23
- Meridian Southern Railway: 55
- Mississippi Central Railroad: 88
- Mississippi Delta Railroad: 85
- Mississippi Export Railroad: 42
- Mississippi Southern Railroad: 156
- Mississippian Railway: 25
- Missouri Eastern Railroad: 52
- Natchez Railway: 65
- Old Augusta Railroad: 3
- Port Bienville Railroad: 9
- R. J. Corman Railroad-Tennessee Terminal: 15
- Railmark Industrial Railway: 10
- Ripley & New Albany Railroad: 23
- Vicksburg Southern Railroad: 48
- West Tennessee Railroad: 2
- TOTAL: 1,122
State Reps
- BNSF: Michael Garriga, Executive Director, Public Affairs, Michael.Garriga@bnsf.com
- Canadian National: Antoine Hawkins, State & Local Affairs Manager, Antoine.Hawkins@cn.ca
- CPKC: Larry Lloyd, AVP, U.S. Government Affairs, Larry.Lloyd@cpkcr.com
- CSX: Jane Covington, Regional VP, State Government Relations, Jane_Covington@CSX.com
- Norfolk Southern: Elizabeth Kennedy Lawlor, Resident VP, Government Relations, Elizabeth.Lawlor@nscorp.com
- G&W: Joe Arbona, AVP, Government Affairs, joe.arbona@gwrr.com
- Watco: Ailsa von Dobeneck, AVP, Government Relations, ailsa@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.