• Freight Railroad Employees: 1,127
  • Freight Railroads: 7
  • Freight Rail Mileage: 1,375
  • Trucks off the Road: It would have taken 3.4 million trucks to handle the freight that moved by rail in Utah in 2022.

Traffic

Tons in millions.

Originated

  • Chemicals: 3.8 tons, 33,900 cars
  • Coal: 3.3 tons, 30,000 cars
  • Crude oil: 2.5 tons, 27,800 cars
  • Metallic ores: 1.7 tons, 15,100 cars
  • Intermodal: 1.7 tons, 108,800 cars
  • Other: 3.8 tons, 43,500 cars
  • TOTAL: 16.8M tons, 259,100 cars

Terminated

  • Chemicals: 2.8 tons, 24,200 cars
  • Intermodal: 1.7 tons, 126,800 cars
  • Coal: 1.5 tons, 14,000 cars
  • Refined petrol. prod.: 1.2 tons, 15,600 cars
  • Waste & scrap: 1.0 tons, 10,300 cars
  • Other: 4.0 tons, 56,500 cars
  • TOTAL: 12.2M tons, 247,400 cars

Railroads

Class I Railroads

  • BNSF: 437
  • Union Pacific: 1,265
  • TOTAL: 1,702

Short Line Railroads

  • Comstock Mountain Lion Railway: 15
  • Salt Lake, Garfield & Western Railway: 16
  • Savage Bingham & Garfield: 21
  • Utah Central Railway: 19
  • Utah Railway: 405
  • TOTAL: 476

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.