
- Freight Railroad Employees: 1,534
- Freight Railroads: 6
- Freight Rail Mileage: 1,860
- Trucks off the Road: It would have taken 18.2M trucks to handle the freight that moved by rail in Wyoming in 2022.
Traffic
Tons in millions.
Originated
- Coal: 223.4 tons, 1,867,500 cars
- Chemicals: 11.9 tons, 109,900 cars
- Stone, clay, & glass pr.: 3.1 tons, 30,400 cars
- Crushed stone & sand: 1.1 tons, 10,900 cars
- Refined petrol. prod.: 0.9 tons, 10,300 cars
- Other: 4.3 tons, 61,000 cars
- TOTAL: 244.7M tons, 2,090,000 cars
Terminated
- Coal: 9.0 tons, 77,800 cars
- Crushed stone & sand: 2.2 tons, 19,000 cars
- Food products: 0.6 tons, 6,000 cars
- Chemicals: 0.5 tons, 5,200 cars
- Refined petrol. prod.: 0.4 tons, 4,100 cars
- Other: 2.4 tons, 37,000 cars
- TOTAL: 15.0M tons, 149,000 cars
Railroads
Class I Railroads
- BNSF: 965
- Union Pacific: 874
- TOTAL: 1,839
Short Line Railroads
- Bighorn Divide & Wyoming Railroad: 32
- Rapid City Pierre & Eastern Railroad: 7
- Swan Ranch Railroad: 8
- Wyoming Connect Railroad: 3
- TOTAL: 50
State Reps
- BNSF: Matthew Jones, Executive Director, Public Affairs, Matthew.Jones@bnsf.com
- Union Pacific: Nathan Anderson, Sr. Director, Public Affairs, Nanderson@up.com and Kelli O’Brien, Sr. Director, Public Affairs, kobrien@up.com
- G&W: Ross Lane, AVP, Government Affairs, ross.lane@gwrr.com
- Watco: Matt Hoobler, AVP, Policy & Sustainability, matt.hoobler@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.