• Freight Railroad Employees: 162
  • Freight Railroads: 10
  • Freight Rail Mileage: 627
  • Trucks off the Road: It would have taken 285,000 trucks to handle the freight that moved by rail in Vermont in 2022.

Traffic

Tons in millions.

Originated

  • TOTAL: 0.8M tons, 9,500 cars

Terminated

  • Refined petrol. prod.: 0.5 tons, 6,500 cars
  • Nonmetallic minerals: 0.4 tons, 3,400 cars
  • Food products: 0.2 tons, 2,200 cars
  • Lumber & wood prod.: 0.1 tons, 1,100 cars
  • Other: 0.3 tons, 4,700 cars
  • TOTAL: 1.4M tons, 17,900 cars

Railroads

Class I Railroads

  • CPKC: 21
  • CSX: 20
  • TOTAL: 41

Short Line Railroads

  • Berkshire & Eastern Railroad: 49
  • Clarendon & Pittsford Railway: 18
  • Green Mountain Railroad: 50
  • New England Central Railroad: 229
  • New Hampshire Central Railroad: 11
  • St. Lawrence & Atlantic Railroad: 34
  • Vermont Railway: 132
  • Washington County Railroad: 112
  • TOTAL: 635

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.