• Freight Railroad Employees: 1,591
  • Freight Railroads: 10
  • Freight Rail Mileage: 2,098
  • Trucks off the Road: It would have taken 7.2 million trucks to handle the freight that moved by rail in West Virginia in 2022.

Traffic

Tons in millions.

Originated

  • Coal: 48.4 tons, 424,700 cars
  • Chemicals: 1.4 tons, 14,900 cars
  • Refined petrol. prod.: 1.3 tons, 18,600 cars
  • Crushed stone & sand: 1.3 tons, 13,100 cars
  • Stone, clay, & glass pr.: 1.1 tons, 10,900 cars
  • Other: 3.0 tons, 49,100 cars
  • TOTAL: 56.6M tons, 531,300 cars

Terminated

  • Coal: 4.0 tons, 35,400 cars
  • Crushed stone & sand: 2.2 tons, 19,200 cars
  • Chemicals: 1.5 tons, 15,500 cars
  • Refined petrol. prod.: 0.5 tons, 6,500 cars
  • Stone, clay, & glass pr.: 0.5 tons, 4,400 cars
  • Other: 2.6 tons, 40,600 cars
  • TOTAL: 11.2M tons, 121,600 cars

Railroads

Class I Railroads

  • CSX: 1,235
  • Norfolk Southern: 618
  • TOTAL: 1,853

Short Line Railroads

  • Appalachian & Ohio Railroad: 158
  • Empire River Rail: 1
  • Kanawha River Railroad: 244
  • Little Kanawha River Rail: 3
  • R. J. Corman Railroad – West Virginia Line: 16
  • South Branch Valley Railroad: 52
  • Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway: 3
  • Winchester & Western Railroad: 28
  • TOTAL: 505

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.