
- Freight Railroad Employees: 2,917
- Freight Railroads: 27
- Freight Rail Mileage: 2,643
- Trucks off the Road: It would have taken 10.6 million trucks to handle the freight that moved by rail in Tennessee in 2022.
Traffic
Tons in millions.
Originated
- Intermodal: 4.7 tons, 346,000 cars
- Stone, clay, & glass pr.: 1.8 tons, 17,800 cars
- Chemicals: 1.7 tons, 19,200 cars
- Food products: 1.1 tons, 11,500 cars
- Steel products: 0.8 tons, 8,700 cars
- Other: 4.2 tons, 83,800 cars
- TOTAL: 14.4M tons, 486,900 cars
Terminated
- Chemicals: 4.6 tons, 49,000 cars
- Intermodal: 4.5 tons, 373,300 cars
- Farm products: 2.8 tons, 26,800 cars
- Food products: 2.6 tons, 27,000 cars
- Coal: 2.6 tons, 23,200 cars
- Other: 6.6 tons, 86,600 cars
- TOTAL: 23.8M tons, 585,900 cars
Railroads
Class I Railroads
- BNSF: 137
- Canadian National: 157
- CPKC: 5
- CSX: 976
- Norfolk Southern: 718
- Union Pacific: 17
- TOTAL: 2,010
Short Line Railroads
- Caney Fork and Western Railroad: 61
- Chattooga & Chickamauga Railway: 1
- East Tennessee Railway: 7
- Grenada Railroad: 10
- Heritage Railroad Corp.: 7
- Knoxville & Holston River Railroad: 26
- Knoxville and Cumberland Gap Railroad: 128
- KWT Railway: 82
- Mississippi Central Railroad: 4
- Mississippi Tennessee Railroad: 1
- R. J. Corman Railroad – Memphis Line: 36
- R. J. Corman Railroad – Tennessee Terminal: 22
- R.J. Corman Railroad – Nashville & Eastern Line: 145
- R.J. Corman Railroad – Nashville & Western Line: 20
- Sequatchie Valley Switching: 8
- South Central Tennessee Railroad: 52
- Tennessee Southern Railroad: 129
- Tennken Railroad: 43
- Union City Terminal Railroad: 8
- Walking Horse Railroad: 8
- West Tennessee Railroad: 178
- TOTAL: 976
State Reps
- BNSF: Michael Garriga, Executive Director, Public Affairs, Michael.Garriga@bnsf.com
- Canadian National: Antoine Hawkins, State & Local Affairs Manager, Antoine.Hawkins@cn.ca
- CSX: Jane Covington, Regional VP, State Government Relations, Jane_Covington@CSX.com
- CPKC: Larry Lloyd, AVP, U.S. Government Affairs, Larry.Lloyd@cpkcr.com
- Norfolk Southern: Elizabeth Kennedy Lawlor, Resident VP, Government Relations, Elizabeth.Lawlor@nscorp.com
- Union Pacific: Drew Tessier, Sr. Director, Public Affairs, drewtessier@up.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.