• Freight Railroad Employees: 3,468
  • Freight Railroads: 28
  • Freight Rail Mileage: 2,852
  • Trucks off the Road: It would have taken 6.4 million trucks to handle the freight that moved by rail in Washington in 2022.

Traffic

Tons in millions.

Originated

  • Crushed stone & sand: 18.1 tons, 158,900 cars
  • Grain: 3.5 tons, 33,700 cars
  • Ground minerals & earths: 1.2 tons, 12,500 cars
  • Chemicals: 1.2 tons, 12,400 cars
  • Pulp & paper: 1.0 tons, 13,300 cars
  • Other: 4.1 tons, 71,100 cars
  • TOTAL: 29.1M tons, 301,900 cars

Terminated

  • Coal: 18.3 tons, 151,300 cars
  • Metallic ores: 7.9 tons, 75,300 cars
  • Chemicals: 2.6 tons, 26,500 cars
  • Pulp & paper: 2.0 tons, 23,000 cars
  • Petr. & coal products: 1.5 tons, 18,000 cars
  • Other: 8.6 tons, 134,500 cars
  • TOTAL: 40.8M tons, 428,500 cars

Railroads

Class I Railroads

  • BNSF: 1,450
  • Union Pacific: 540
  • TOTAL: 1,990

Short Line Railroads

  • Ballard Terminal Railroad: 2
  • Cascade & Columbia River Railroad: 154
  • Central Washington Railroad: 80
  • Columbia & Cowlitz Railway: 9
  • Columbia and Walla Walla Railway: 82
  • Columbia Basin Railroad: 86
  • Columbia Shipyards Railroad : 3
  • Great Northwest Railroad: 85
  • Kennewick Terminal Railroad: 2
  • Kettle Falls International Railway: 36
  • Longview Switching: 9
  • Meeker Southern Railroad: 8
  • Montana Rail Link: 15
  • Mount Vernon Terminal Railway: 3
  • Olympia & Belmore Railroad : 13
  • Palouse River & Coulee City Railroad: 157
  • Pend Oreille Valley Railroad : 35
  • Portland Vancouver Junction Railroad: 33
  • Puget Sound & Pacific Railroad: 158
  • Rainier Rail: 80
  • Spokane, Spangle and Palouse Railway: 68
  • St. Paul & Pacific Northwest Railroad: 69
  • Tacoma Rail: 9
  • Washington Eastern Railroad: 108
  • Washington Royal Line: 26
  • Yak Rail: 22
  • TOTAL: 1,352

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.