- Freight Railroad Employees: 14,903
- Freight Railroads: 55
- Freight Rail Mileage: 10,251
- Trucks off the Road: It would have taken 2.14 million trucks to handle the freight that moved by rail in Texas in 2022.
Traffic
Tons in millions.
Originated
- Chemicals: 42.5 tons, 451,500 cars
- Crushed stone & sand: 33.0 tons, 302,900 cars
- Intermodal: 12.4 tons, 899,300 cars
- Petr. & coal products: 10.3 tons, 124,200 cars
- Steel products: 7.5 tons, 81,800 cars
- Other: 23.4 tons, 342,800 cars
- TOTAL: 129.1M tons, 2,202,600 cars
Terminated
- Crushed stone & sand: 48.7 tons, 442,400 cars
- Coal: 42.4 tons, 352,300 cars
- Chemicals: 32.8 tons, 345,500 cars
- Grain: 17.3 tons, 160,700 cars
- Petr. & coal products: 16.3 tons, 184,300 cars
- Other: 58.9 tons, 1,587,400 cars
- TOTAL: 216.4M tons, 3,072,600 cars
Railroads
Class I Railroads
- BNSF: 5,388
- CPKC: 939
- Union Pacific: 6,498
- TOTAL: 12,825
Short Line Railroads
- Alamo Gulf Coast Railroad: 7
- Alamo North Texas Railroad: 2
- Angelina & Neches River Railroad: 32
- Austin Western Railroad: 126
- Big Spring Rail Systems: 3
- Blacklands Railroad: 8
- Border Pacific Railroad: 32
- Brownsville & Rio Grande Intl. Railway: 5
- Dallas, Garland & Northeastern Railroad: 201
- DFW & Southern Railway: 5
- DFW & Southern Railway: 2
- Fort Worth & Western Railroad: 276
- Galveston Railroad: 39
- Gardendale Railroad: 2
- Georgetown Railroad: 30
- Grainbelt: 12
- Henderson Overton Branch Railroad: 14
- Hondo Railway: 3
- Kiamichi Railroad: 30
- LaSalle Railway: 4
- Lubbock & Western Railway: 122
- Moscow, Camden & San Augustine Railroad: 7
- Northeast Texas Connector : 66
- Orange Port Terminal Railway: 2
- Panhandle Northern Railroad: 31
- Pecos Valley Southern Railway: 19
- Plainsman Switching Co.: 4
- Point Comfort & Northern Railway: 19
- Port Terminal Railroad Association: 37
- R. J. Corman Railroad – Texas Lines: 13
- Rio Valley Switching: 66
- Sabine River & Northern Railroad: 40
- San Antonio Central Railroad: 8
- San Jacinto Transportation Company: 4
- South Plains Lamesa Railroad: 15
- Southern Switching: 9
- Southwest Gulf Railroad Co.: 9
- Temple & Central Texas Railway: 2
- Texas & Eastern Railroad: 30
- Texas & New Mexico Railway: 35
- Texas & Northern Railway: 7
- Texas & Oklahoma Railroad: 22
- Texas Central Business Lines: 5
- Texas Coastal Bend Railroad: 21
- Texas North Western Railway: 34
- Texas Northeastern Railroad: 70
- Texas Pacifico Transportation: 382
- Texas Rock Crusher Railway: 6
- Texas, Gonzales & Northern Railway: 12
- Timber Rock Railroad.: 17
- Western Rail Road: 2
- Wichita, Tillman & Jackson Railway: 18
- TOTAL: 1,967
State Reps
- BNSF: Lindsay Mullins, Executive Director, Public Affairs, Lindsay.Mullins@bnsf.com and Matt Larseingue, Executive Director, Public Affairs, Matt.Larseingue@bnsf.com
- CPKC: Larry Lloyd, AVP, U.S. Government Affairs, Larry.Lloyd@cpkcr.com
- Union Pacific: Raquel Espinoza, Sr. Director, Public Affairs, Respinoza@up.com, Richard Zientek, Sr. Director, Public Affairs, richardzientek@up.com, Nathan Anderson, Sr. Director, Public Affairs, Nandeson@up.com
- G&W: Ross Lane, AVP, Government Affairs, ross.lane@gwrr.com
- Watco: Ailsa von Dobeneck, AVP, Government Relations, ailsa@watco.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.