
- Freight Railroad Employees: 5,652
- Freight Railroads: 15
- Freight Rail Mileage: 3,793
- Trucks off the Road: It would have taken 18.5 million trucks to handle the freight that moved by rail in Missouri in 2022.
Freight Rail Traffic
Tons in millions.
Originated
- Grain: 6.2 tons, 58,100 cars
- Stone, clay, & glass pr.: 4.6 tons, 43,100 cars
- Food products: 3.8 tons, 37,700 cars
- Intermodal: 3.6 tons, 207,500 cars
- Chemicals: 1.8 tons, 19,300 cars
- Other: 4.0 tons, 92,200 cars
- TOTAL: 24.0M tons, 457,900 cars
Terminated
- Coal: 33.6 tons, 281,300 cars
- Intermodal: 2.8 tons, 195,700 cars
- Grain: 2.6 tons, 24,900 cars
- Chemicals: 2.4 tons, 25,100 cars
- Food products: 2.0 tons, 20,500 cars
- Other: 6.4 tons, 97,100 cars
- TOTAL: 49.9M tons, 644,600 cars
Freight Rail Miles
Class I Railroads
- BNSF: 1,606
- CPKC: 605
- Norfolk Southern: 409
- Union Pacific: 1,541
- TOTAL: 4,161
Short Line Railroads
- Arkansas & Missouri Railroad: 33
- Burlington Junction Railway: 6
- Columbia COLT Terminal Railroad: 21
- Kaw River Railroad: 32
- Missouri & Northern Arkansas Railroad: 386
- Missouri North Central Railroad: 4
- Ozark Valley Railroad: 33
- Semo Port Railroad: 7
- South Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad: 7
- Terminal Railroad Assn. of St. Louis: 27
- West Belt Railway: 10
- TOTAL: 566
State Reps
- BNSF: Jeff Davis, Executive Director, Public Affairs, Jeffrey.Davis@bnsf.com
- CPKC: Ryan Nonnemaker, Director, U.S. Government Affairs, Ryan.Nonnemaker@cpkcr.com
- Norfolk Southern: Derek Sublette, AVP, Government Relations, Derek.Sublette@nscorp.com
- Union Pacific: Ben Jones, Sr. Director, Public Affairs, Bwjones1@UP.com
- G&W: Joe Arbona, AVP, Government Affairs, joe.arbona@gwrr.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.