• Freight Railroad Employees: 656
• Freight Railroads: 11
• Freight Rail Mileage: 1,881
• Trucks off the Road: It would have taken 4.2 million trucks to handle the freight that moved by rail in South Dakota in 2022.

Originated

• Grain: 7.7 tons, 71,000 cars
• Chemicals: 4.2 tons, 44,000 cars
• Food products: 3.7 tons, 35,700 cars
• Stone, clay, & glass pr.: 0.8 tons, 7,700 cars
• Nonmetallic minerals: 0.2 tons, 2,400 cars
• Other: 1.1 tons, 18,000 cars
• TOTAL: 17.6M tons, 178,800 cars

Terminated

• Chemicals: 1.3 tons, 12,900 cars
• Coal: 1.0 tons, 8,600 cars
• Cement: 0.5 tons, 4,600 cars
• Grain: 0.2 tons, 2,000 cars
• Crushed stone & sand: 0.2 tons, 1,800 cars
• Other: 0.6 tons, 7,700 cars
• TOTAL: 3.8M tons, 37,600 cars

Class I Railroads

• BNSF: 895
• CPKC: 112
• TOTAL: 1,007

Short Line Railroads

• D&I Railroad: 92
• Dakota Southern Railway: 21
• Dakota, Missouri Valley, & Western Railroad: 56
• Ellis & Eastern Railroad: 30
• Rapid City Pierre & Eastern Railroad: 810
• Ringneck & Western Railroad: 108
• Sisseton Milbank Railroad: 37
• Sunflour Railroad: 19
• Twin Cities & Western Railroad: 11
• TOTAL: 1,184