• Freight Railroad Employees: 1,469
  • Freight Railroads: 7
  • Freight Rail Mileage: 3,234
  • Trucks off the Road: It would have taken 406.6M trucks to handle the freight that moved by rail in North Dakota in 2022.

Traffic

Tons in millions.

Originated

  • Grain: 18.0 tons, 169,600 cars
  • Crude oil: 6.7 tons, 70,800 cars
  • Food products: 5.4 tons, 53,600 cars
  • Chemicals: 2.1 tons, 21,700 cars
  • Refined petrol. prod.: 1.7 tons, 22,600 cars
  • Other: 5.2 tons, 68,300 cars
  • TOTAL: 39.1M tons, 406,600 cars

Terminated

  • Crushed stone & sand: 6.5 tons, 57,900 cars
  • Coal: 2.6 tons, 24,300 cars
  • Chemicals: 2.0 tons, 20,500 cars
  • Food products: 0.8 tons, 8,000 cars
  • Farm products: 0.8 tons, 7,600 cars
  • Other: 3.3 tons, 51,500 cars
  • TOTAL: 15.9M tons, 169,700 cars

Railroads

Class I Railroads

  • BNSF: 1,633
  • CPKC: 530
  • TOTAL: 2,163

Short Line Railroads

  • Dakota Northern Railroad: 59
  • Dakota, Missouri Valley, & Western Railroad: 389
  • Northern Plains Railroad: 307
  • Red River Valley & Western Railroad: 542
  • Yellowstone Valley Railroad: 1
  • TOTAL: 1,298

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.