• Freight Railroad Employees: 1,409
  • Freight Railroads: 6
  • Freight Rail Mileage: 1,859
  • Trucks off the Road: It would have taken approximately 378,000 additional trucks to handle the 6.8 million tons of freight that railroads originated in New Mexico in 2023.

Traffic

Tons in millions.

Originated

  • Coal: 3.2 tons, 26,500 cars
  • Chemicals: 0.9 tons, 9,200 cars
  • Intermodal: 0.7 tons, 62,100 cars
  • Refined petrol. prod.: 0.5 tons, 5,600 cars
  • Waste & scrap: 0.4 tons, 3,900 cars
  • Other: 1.1 tons, 16,300 cars
  • TOTAL: 6.8M tons, 123,600 cars

Terminated

  • Food products: 1.4 tons, 13,600 cars
  • Chemicals: 0.9 tons, 9,000 cars
  • Intermodal: 0.6 tons, 53,300 cars
  • Grain: 0.6 tons, 5,800 cars
  • Refined petrol. prod.: 0.4 tons, 5,100 cars
  • Other: 2.3 tons, 32,600 cars
  • TOTAL: 6.3M tons, 119,500 cars

Railroads

Class I Railroads

  • BNSF: 1,636
  • Union Pacific: 618
  • TOTAL: 2,254

Short Line Railroads

  • Arizona Eastern Railway: 50
  • Santa Teresa Southern Railroad: 2
  • Southwestern Railroad: 102
  • Texas & New Mexico Railway: 70
  • TOTAL: 224

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.