• Freight Railroad Employees: 1,657
• Freight Railroads: 21
• Freight Rail Mileage: 2751
• Trucks off the Road: It would have taken four million trucks to handle the freight that moved by rail in North Carolina in 2022.

Originated

• Crushed stone & sand: 3.1 tons, 27,600 cars
• Chemicals: 3.1 tons, 31,600 cars
• Intermodal: 2.6 tons, 192,000 cars
• Lumber & wood prod.: 1.2 tons, 13,100 cars
• Waste & scrap: 0.9 tons, 10,100 cars
• Other: 3.6 tons, 45,600 cars
• TOTAL: 14.5M tons, 320,000 cars

Terminated

• Chemicals: 6.7 tons, 68,600 cars
• Grain: 6.4 tons, 59,900 cars
• Coal: 5.8 tons, 49,800 cars
• Food products: 3.9 tons, 38,700 cars
• Nonmetallic minerals: 3.8 tons, 35,100 cars
• Other: 11.3 tons, 307,700 cars
• TOTAL: 37.8M tons, 559,800 cars

Class I Railroads

• CSX: 1,062
• Norfolk Southern: 1,121
• TOTAL: 2,183

Short Line Railroads

• Aberdeen & Rockfish Railroad: 47
• Aberdeen, Carolina and Western Railway: 150
• Alexander Railroad: 20
• Atlantic & Western Railway: 60
• Atlantic Railways: 11
• Blue Ridge Southern Railroad: 92
• Caldwell County Railroad: 17
• Cape Fear Railways: 8
• Carolina Coastal Railway: 177
• Charlotte Western Railroad: 13
• Chesapeake & Albemarle Railroad: 51
• Kinston Railroad: 6
• Laurinburg & Southern Railroad: 40
• North Carolina & Virginia Railroad: 53
• R. J. Corman Railroad – Carolina Lines: 16
• Raleigh & Fayetteville Railroad: 63
• Wilmington Terminal Railroad: 17
• Winston-Salem Southbound Railway: 90
• Yadkin Valley Railroad: 100
• TOTAL: 1,031