• Freight Railroad Employees: 8.183
• Freight Railroads: 10
• Freight Rail Mileage: 3,140
• Trucks off the Road: It would have taken 17.5 million trucks to handle the freight that moved by rail in Nebraska in 2022.

Originated

• Grain: 10.4 tons, 96,300 cars
• Food products: 8.2 tons, 80,800 cars
• Chemicals: 6.0 tons, 63,800 cars
• Crushed stone & sand: 1.7 tons, 15,000 cars
• Intermodal: 0.7 tons, 29,500 cars
• Other: 1.7 tons, 22,900 cars
• TOTAL: 28.7M tons, 308,200 cars

Terminated

• Coal: 12.2 tons, 103,300 cars
• Chemicals: 2.8 tons, 28,300 cars
• Grain: 1.5 tons, 13,700 cars
• Food products: 0.9 tons, 9,000 cars
• Cement: 0.6 tons, 6,000 cars
• Other: 3.4 tons, 69,900 cars
• TOTAL: 21.4M tons, 230,100 cars

Class I Railroads

• BNSF: 1,582
• Union Pacific: 1,100
• TOTAL: 2,682

Short Line Railroads

• Cornhusker Railroad: 27
• Manning Rail: 7
• Nebraska Central Railroad: 340
• Nebraska Northwestern Railroad: 33
• Nebraska, Kansas, & Colorado Railway: 316
• Omaha, Lincoln & Beatrice Railway: 4
• Rapid City Pierre & Eastern Railroad: 13
• Sidney and Lowe Railroad: 11
• TOTAL: 751