• Freight Railroad Employees: 518
  • Freight Railroads: 2
  • Freight Rail Mileage: 1,193
  • Trucks off the Road: It would have taken approximately 323,000 additional trucks to handle the 5.8 million tons of freight that railroads terminated in Nevada in 2023.

Freight Rail Traffic

Tons in millions.

Originated

  • Stone, clay, & glass pr.: n/a
  • Nonmetallic minerals: n/a
  • Waste & scrap: n/a
  • Intermodal: n/a
  • Metallic ores: n/a
  • Other: n/a
  • TOTAL: 2.3M tons, 33,600 cars

Terminated

  • Coal: n/a
  • Chemicals: n/a
  • Cement: n/a
  • Refined petrol. prod.: n/a
  • Lumber & wood prod.: n/a
  • Other: n/a
  • TOTAL: 5.8M tons, 78,700 cars

Freight Rail Miles

Class I Railroads

  • BNSF: 798
  • Union Pacific: 1,193
  • TOTAL: 1,991

Short Line Railroads

  • TOTAL: 0

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.