• 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

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.