• Freight Railroad Employees: 1,328
  • Freight Railroads: 21
  • Freight Rail Mileage: 2,307
  • Trucks off the Road: It would have taken approximately 630,000 additional trucks to handle the 11.3 million tons of freight that terminated by rail in Oregon in 2023.

Traffic

Tons in millions.

Originated

  • Lumber & wood prod.: 4.2 tons, 43,700 cars
  • Intermodal: 2.5 tons, 162,700 cars
  • Stone & glass prod.: 1.1 tons, 9,800 cars
  • Pulp & paper: 0.7 tons, 8,800 cars
  • Steel products: 0.6 tons, 6,800 cars
  • Other: 2.7 tons, 51,400 cars
  • TOTAL: 11.7M tons, 281,200 cars

Terminated

  • Chemicals: 6.3 tons, 58,800 cars
  • Intermodal: 4.6 tons, 245,300 cars
  • Grain: 1.7 tons, 16,300 cars
  • Crude oil: 1.3 tons, 14,200 cars
  • Refined petrol. prod.: 1.0 tons, 12,300 cars
  • Other: 4.7 tons, 69,700 cars
  • TOTAL: 19.7M tons, 416,500 cars

Railroads

Class I Railroads

  • BNSF: 414
  • Union Pacific: 1,073
  • TOTAL: 1,487

Short Line Railroads

  • Albany & Eastern Railroad: 72
  • Central Oregon & Pacific Railroad: 297
  • City of Prineville Railway: 18
  • Clackamas Valley Railway: 2
  • Columbia and Walla Walla Railway: 13
  • Coos Bay Rail Line: 134
  • Goose Lake Railway: 15
  • Hampton Railway: 5
  • Idaho Northern & Pacific Railroad: 20
  • Klamath Northern Railway: 11
  • Mt. Hood Railroad: 22
  • Oregon Eastern Railroad: 24
  • Oregon Independence Railroad: 1
  • Oregon Pacific Railroad: 13
  • Peninsula Terminal Co.: 1
  • Port of Tillamook Bay Railroad: 7
  • Portland & Western Railroad: 632
  • Rogue Valley Terminal Railroad: 10
  • Willamette Valley Railway: 32
  • TOTAL: 1,329

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.