- Freight Railroad Employees: 2,266
- Freight Railroads: 37
- Freight Rail Mileage: 3,376
- Trucks off the Road: It would have taken 3.3 million trucks to handle the freight that moved by rail in New York in 2022.
Traffic
Tons in millions.
Originated
- Waste & scrap: 4.2 tons, 39,800 cars
- Nonmetallic minerals: 2.0 tons, 18,000 cars
- Intermodal: 1.2 tons, 96,800 cars
- Chemicals: 0.6 tons, 6,400 cars
- Pulp & paper: 0.4 tons, 5,000 cars
- Other: 1.4 tons, 24,400 cars
- TOTAL: 9.8M tons, 190,400 cars
Terminated
- Chemicals: 2.6 tons, 27,400 cars
- Food products: 2.2 tons, 23,600 cars
- Crushed stone & sand: 1.7 tons, 15,100 cars
- Waste & scrap: 1.6 tons, 15,500 cars
- Refined petrol. prod.: 1.2 tons, 15,900 cars
- Other: 5.9 tons, 166,600 cars
- TOTAL: 15.3M tons, 264,200 cars
Railroads
Class I Railroads
- CPKC: 414
- CSX: 1,110
- Norfolk Southern: 840
- TOTAL: 6,346
Short Line Railroads
- Albany Port Railroad: 10
- Arcade & Attica Railroad: 15
- B&H Rail: 47
- Batten Kill Railroad: 35
- Berkshire & Eastern Railroad: 70
- Brookhaven Rail: 3
- Buffalo & Pittsburgh Railroad: 101
- Buffalo Southern Railroad: 32
- Central New York Railroad: 81
- Clarendon & Pittsford Railway: 17
- Depew, Lancaster & Western Railroad: 14
- Falls Road Railroad: 59
- Finger Lakes Railway: 167
- Housatonic Railroad: 41
- Ithaca Central Railroad: 47
- Livonia, Avon & Lakeville Railroad: 29
- Massena Terminal Railroad: 4
- Middletown & New Jersey Railroad: 80
- Mohawk, Adirondack & Northern Railroad: 57
- New York & Atlantic Railway: 270
- New York & Lake Erie Railroad: 29
- New York & Ogdensburg Railroad: 31
- New York New Jersey Rail: 4
- New York, Susquehanna & Western Railway: 306
- Ontario Midland Railroad: 47
- Providence and Worcester Railroad: 12
- R.J. Corman Railroad – Owego & Harford Line: 27
- Rochester & Southern Railroad: 166
- SMS Rail Lines of New York: 25
- South Brooklyn Railway: 1
- South Buffalo Railway: 54
- Vermont Railway: 4
- Wellsboro & Corning Railroad: 13
- Western New York & Pennsylvania Railroad: 127
- TOTAL: 2,025
State Reps
- Canadian National: Jeffrey Price, State & Local Affairs Manager, Jeffrey.Price@cn.ca
- CPKC: Larry Lloyd, AVP, U.S. Government Affairs, Larry.Lloyd@cpkcr.com
- CSX: Rodney Oglesby, Resident VP, Government Relations, Rodney_Oglesby@csx.com
- Norfolk Southern: Michael Fesen, Director, Government Relations, michael.fesen@nscorp.com
- G&W: Charles Hunter, AVP, Government Affairs, Charles.Hunter@gwrr.com
- Watco: Laura McNichol, SVP, Chief Sustainability Officer, lam@watco.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.