
- Freight Railroad Employees: 861
- Freight Railroads: 19
- Freight Rail Mileage: 1,079
- Trucks off the Road: It would have taken 2.6 million trucks to handle the freight that moved by rail in New Jersey in 2022.
Traffic
Tons in millions.
Originated
- Intermodal: 9.2 tons, 656,100 cars
- Waste & scrap: 5.0 tons, 54,000 cars
- Chemicals: 1.0 tons, 10,900 cars
- Steel products: 0.6 tons, 6,100 cars
- Refined petrol. prod.: 0.4 tons, 5,300 cars
- Other: 1.0 tons, 14,200 cars
- Total: 17.2M tons, 746,600 cars
Terminated
- Intermodal: 7.7 tons, 546,500 cars
- Chemicals: 5.7 tons, 60,700 cars
- Food products: 1.9 tons, 22,200 cars
- Refined petrol. prod.: 1.8 tons, 22,700 cars
- Motor vehicles & parts: 1.0 tons, 50,100 cars
- Other: 3.5 tons, 41,200 cars
- Total: 21.6M tons, 743,400 cars
Railroads
Class I Railroads
- CSX: 624
- Norfolk Southern: 893
- TOTAL: 1,517
Short Line Railroads
- Bayway Terminal Switching Co.: 1
- Belvidere & Delaware River Railway: 19
- Black River & Western Railroad: 14
- Cape May Seashore Lines: 45
- Conrail: 469
- Delaware and Raritan River Railroad: 50
- Dover & Rockaway River Railroad: 17
- Dover and Delaware River Railroad: 109
- East Jersey Railroad & Terminal: 3
- Hainesport Secondary Railroad: 2
- Morristown and Erie Railway: 9
- New York New Jersey Rail: 1
- New York, Susquehanna & Western Railway: 91
- Raritan Central Railway: 5
- SMS Rail Service: 18
- Southern Railroad of New Jersey: 50
- Winchester & Western Railroad: 47TOTAL: 950
State Reps
- CSX: Rodney Oglesby, Resident VP, Government Relations, Rodney_Oglesby@csx.com
- Norfolk Southern: Michael Fesen, Director, Government Relations, michael.fesen@nscorp.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.