• Freight Railroad Employees: 4,371
  • Freight Railroads: 58
  • Freight Rail Mileage: 5,080
  • Trucks off the Road: It would have taken 9.3 million trucks to handle the freight that moved by rail in Pennsylvania in 2022.

Traffic

Originated

  • Coal: 31.3 tons, 273,400 cars
  • Intermodal: 8.4 tons, 589,500 cars
  • Petr. & coal products: 4.5 tons, 65,400 cars
  • Steel products: 2.5 tons, 28,000 cars
  • Crushed stone & sand: 2.3 tons, 21,700 cars
  • Other: 8.3 tons, 116,000 cars
  • TOTAL: 57.4M tons, 1,094,100 cars

Terminated

  • Intermodal: 8.8 tons, 605,000 cars
  • Crushed stone & sand: 6.5 tons, 57,700 cars
  • Chemicals: 5.7 tons, 59,400 cars
  • Coal: 4.5 tons, 40,200 cars
  • Food products: 4.3 tons, 45,500 cars
  • Other: 22.2 tons, 292,000 cars
  • TOTAL: 52.0M tons, 1,099,800 cars

Railroads

Tons in millions.

Class I Railroads

  • Canadian National: 154
  • CSX: 1,049
  • Norfolk Southern: 2,410
  • TOTAL: 3,613

Short Line Railroads

  • Aliquippa & Ohio River Railroad: 6
  • Allegheny Valley Railroad: 77
  • Allentown & Auburn Railroad: 4
  • Belvidere & Delaware River Railway: 1
  • Brandywine Valley Railroad: 3
  • Buffalo & Pittsburgh Railroad: 655
  • Central New York Railroad: 42
  • Chestnut Ridge Railway: 5
  • Columbia & Reading Railway: 3
  • Conrail: 127
  • Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad: 88
  • East Erie Commercial Railroad: 5
  • East Penn Railroad: 101
  • Eastern Berks Gateway Railroad: 9
  • Elizabethtown Industrial Railroad: 1
  • Everett Railroad: 24
  • Gettysburg & Northern Railroad: 27
  • Ithaca Central Railroad: 1
  • Juniata Valley Railroad: 64
  • Kasgro Rail Lines: 4
  • Lehigh Valley Rail Mgmt – Bethlehem Div.: 5
  • Lehigh Valley Rail Mgmt – Johnstown Div.: 19
  • LVR Railroad: 1
  • Lycoming Valley Railroad: 85
  • Maryland Midland Railway: 1
  • Middletown & Hummelstown Railroad: 7
  • N. D. C. Railroad: 1
  • New Castle Industrial Railroad: 16
  • New Hope Railroad: 19
  • New York, Susquehanna & Western Railway: 42
  • Nittany & Bald Eagle Railroad: 125
  • North Shore Railroad: 37
  • Oil Creek & Titusville Lines: 14
  • Pennsylvania & Southern Railway: 15
  • Pennsylvania Northeastern Railroad: 56
  • Pennsylvania Southwestern Railroad: 12
  • Pittsburgh & Ohio Central Railroad: 38
  • R. J. Corman Railroad – Allentown Lines: 2
  • R. J. Corman Railroad – Lehigh Line: 60
  • R. J. Corman Railroad – Luzerne and Susquehanna Line: 60
  • R. J. Corman Railroad – Pennsylvania Lines: 243
  • Reading, Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad: 314
  • Shamokin Valley Railroad: 29
  • SMS Rail Service: 4
  • Southwest Pennsylvania Railroad: 66
  • Strasburg Rail Road: 5
  • Tyburn Railroad: 2
  • Union County Industrial Railroad: 12
  • Union Railroad Company: 22
  • Upper Merion & Plymouth Railroad: 6
  • Wellsboro & Corning Railroad: 29
  • Western New York & Pennsylvania Railroad: 159
  • Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway: 287
  • York Railway Company: 53
  • Youngstown & Southeastern Railroad: 5
  • TOTAL: 3,098

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.