
- Freight Railroad Employees: 2,476
- Freight Railroads: 12
- Freight Rail Mileage: 3,053
- Trucks off the Road: It would have taken 6.5 million trucks to handle the freight that moved by rail in Virginia in 2022.
Traffic
Tons in millions.
Originated
- Coal: 11.2 tons, 100,900 cars
- Intermodal: 5.3 tons, 351,700 cars
- Crushed stone & sand: 4.4 tons, 40,100 cars
- Chemicals: 1.3 tons, 13,500 cars
- Stone, clay, & glass pr.: 1.1 tons, 10,800 cars
- Other: 3.7 tons, 51,800 cars
- TOTAL: 26.9M tons, 568,900 cars
Terminated
- Coal: 35.7 tons, 315,600 cars
- Intermodal: 7.0 tons, 411,300 cars
- Crushed stone & sand: 3.5 tons, 32,100 cars
- Chemicals: 3.3 tons, 34,300 cars
- Waste & scrap: 3.2 tons, 33,200 cars
- Other: 9.8 tons, 116,200 cars
- TOTAL: 62.5M tons, 942,700 cars
Railroads
Class I Railroads
- CSX: 1,016
- Norfolk Southern: 1,990
- TOTAL: 3,006
Short Line Railroads
- Buckingham Branch Railroad: 280
- Chesapeake & Albemarle Railroad: 18
- Commonwealth Railway: 27
- Delmarva Central Railroad: 15
- Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad: 22
- Knoxville and Cumberland Gap Railroad: 1
- Norfolk & Portsmouth Belt Line: 43
- North Carolina & Virginia Railroad: 3
- Shenandoah Valley Railroad: 20
- Winchester & Western Railroad: 25
- TOTAL: 454
State Reps
- CSX: Randy Marcus, Resident VP, Government Relations, randy_marcus@csx.com
- Norfolk Southern: Tim Bentley, Resident VP, Government Relations, timothy.bentley@nscorp.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.