• Freight Railroad Employees: 4,807
  • Freight Railroads: 44
  • Freight Rail Mileage: 5,112
  • Trucks off the Road: It would have taken 14.3 million trucks to handle the freight that moved by rail in Ohio in 2022.

Traffic

Tons in millions.

Originated

  • Crushed stone & sand: 8.5 tons, 79,600 cars
  • Grain: 8.1 tons, 75,000 cars
  • Intermodal: 7.8 tons, 507,200 cars
  • Steel products: 6.6 tons, 73,300 cars
  • Metallic ores: 5.6 tons, 56,300 cars
  • Other: 21.9 tons, 302,100 cars
  • TOTAL: 58.5M tons, 1,093,400 cars

Terminated

  • Crushed stone & sand: 10.2 tons, 93,600 cars
  • Coal: 9.1 tons, 81,400 cars
  • Waste & scrap: 9.1 tons, 94,500 cars
  • Chemicals: 7.0 tons, 72,600 cars
  • Intermodal: 6.4 tons, 507,900 cars
  • Other: 23.6 tons, 294,500 cars
  • TOTAL: 65.4M tons, 1,144,500 cars

Railroads

Class I Railroads

  • Canadian National: 4
  • CPKC: 30
  • CSX: 1,747
  • Norfolk Southern: 1,905
  • TOTAL: 3,686

Short Line Railroads

  • Akron Barberton Cluster Railway: 68
  • Ann Arbor Railroad: 5
  • Ashland Railway: 56
  • Ashtabula, Carson & Jefferson Railroad: 6
  • Belpre Industrial Parkersburg Railroad: 48
  • Bucyrus Industrial Railroad: 5
  • Camp Chase Railway: 15
  • Central Railroad Company of Indiana: 29
  • Chicago, Ft. Wayne & Eastern Railroad: 139
  • Cincinnati Eastern Railroad: 70
  • Cleveland & Cuyahoga Railway: 12
  • Cleveland Port Railway: 1
  • Cleveland Works Railway: 10
  • Columbus & Ohio River Railroad: 316
  • East Ohio Valley Railway: 12
  • Grand River Railway: 3
  • Indiana & Ohio Railway: 594
  • Indiana Eastern Railroad: 14
  • Indiana Northeastern Railroad: 9
  • Kanawha River Railroad: 127
  • Katahdin Railcar Services: 12
  • Lake Terminal Railroad: 6
  • Mahoning Valley Railway: 53
  • Napoleon, Defiance and Western Railway: 50
  • Newburgh & South Shore Railroad: 5
  • Northern Ohio & Western Railway: 25
  • Ohio Central Railroad: 122
  • Ohio South Central Railroad: 60
  • Ohio Southern Railroad: 42
  • Ohio Terminal Railway: 13
  • R. J. Corman Railroad – Cleveland Line: 69
  • R. J. Corman Railroad – Western Ohio Lines: 93
  • Republic Short Line: 1
  • South Point & Ohio Railroad: 1
  • Toledo Industrial Railroad: 1
  • Warren and Trumbull Railroad: 4
  • Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway: 524
  • Youngstown & Austintown Railroad: 5
  • Youngstown & Southeastern Railroad: 35
  • Youngstown Belt Railroad: 31
  • TOTAL: 2,691

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.