
- Freight Railroad Employees: 1,294
- Freight Railroads: 12
- Freight Rail Mileage: 2,258
- Trucks off the Road: It would have taken 3.3 million trucks to handle the freight that moved by rail in South Carolina in 2022.
Traffic
Tons in millions.
Originated
- Intermodal: 3.8 tons, 271,600 cars
- Chemicals: 2.3 tons, 22,400 cars
- Pulp & paper: 1.5 tons, 18,500 cars
- Crushed stone & sand: 1.4 tons, 12,100 cars
- Lumber & wood prod.: 1.3 tons, 13,400 cars
- Other: 4.2 tons, 70,500 cars
- TOTAL: 14.4M tons, 408,400 cars
Terminated
- Coal: 6.4 tons, 55,000 cars
- Chemicals: 5.8 tons, 61,100 cars
- Crushed stone & sand: 3.9 tons, 33,900 cars
- Intermodal: 3.7 tons, 270,400 cars
- Waste & scrap: 1.6 tons, 16,700 cars
- Other: 7.9 tons, 112,100 cars
- TOTAL: 29.3M tons, 549,100 cars
Railroads
Class I Railroads
- CSX: 1,280
- Norfolk Southern: 762
- TOTAL: 2,042
Short Line Railroads
- Aiken Railway: 19
- Carolina Coastal Railway: 7
- Carolina Piedmont Railroad: 33
- Greenville & Western Railway: 13
- Lancaster & Chester Railway: 62
- Palmetto Railways: 22
- Pee Dee River Railway: 15
- Pickens Railway: 28
- R. J. Corman Railroad – Carolina Lines: 87
- South Carolina Central Railroad: 51
- TOTAL: 337
State Reps
- CSX: John Dillard, Resident VP, State Government Affairs, john_dillard@csx.com
- Norfolk Southern: Conner Poe, AVP, Government Affairs, Conner.Poe@nscorp.com
- G&W: Joe Arbona, AVP, Government Affairs, joe.arbona@gwrr.com
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.