
- Freight Railroad Employees: 2,690
- Freight Railroads: 9
- Freight Rail Mileage: 3,105
- Trucks off the Road: It would have taken 8.5 million trucks to handle the freight that moved by rail in Wisconsin 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: 250
- Canadian National: 1,014
- CPKC: 618
- Union Pacific: 919
- TOTAL: 2,801
Short Line Railroads
- Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad: 121
- Fox Valley & Lake Superior Rail System: 261
- Tomahawk Railway: 9
- Wisconsin & Southern Railroad: 670
- Wisconsin Northern Railroad: 38
- TOTAL: 1,099
State Reps
- BNSF: Lydia Underdahl, Executive Director, Public Affairs, Lydia.Underdahl@bnsf.com
- Canadian National: Kevin Donahue, State & Local Affairs Manager, Kevin.Donahue@cn.ca
- CPKC: Larry Lloyd, AVP, U.S. Government Affairs, Larry.Lloyd@cpkcr.com
- Union Pacific: Tom Evenson, Sr. Director, Public Affairs, thomas.evenson@up.com
- G&W: Charles Hunter, AVP, Government Affairs, Charles.Hunter@gwrr.com
- Watco: Ken Lucht, AVP, Government & Industry Relations, klucht@watco.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.