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Pennsylvania Rail Fast Facts for 2019 Freight Railroads … Freight Railroads in Pennsylvania Rail Fast Facts For 2019 Freight railroads …........................................................................................................................................................ 61 Freight railroad mileage …............................................................................................................................... 5,189 Freight rail employees ….......................................................................................................................... 5,774 Average wages & benefits per employee ….........................................................................................................$110,200 Railroad retirement beneficiaries …........................................................................................................... 29,200 Railroad retirement benefits paid …............................................................................................ $739 million U.S. Economy: According to a Towson University study, in 2017, America's Class I railroads supported: Sustainability: Railroads are the most fuel efficient way to move freight over land. It would have taken approximately 11.2 million additional trucks to handle the 202.5 million tons of freight that moved by rail in Pennsylvania in 2019. Rail Traffic Originated in 2019 Total Tons: 55.5 million Total Carloads: 899,200 Commodity Tons (mil) Carloads Coal 32.6 279,000 Intermodal 5.9 431,000 Petroleum Products 5.7 71,000 Nonmetallic Minerals 3.2 31,200 Primary Metal Products 2.7 29,200 Other 5.3 57,700 Source: AAR analysis of industry data Primary Metal Products 5% (% based on tonnage) Rail Traffic Terminated in 2019 Total Tons: 61.1 million Total Carloads: 1,200,300 Commodity Tons (mil) Carloads Coal 11.9 101,500 Intermodal 8.9 643,700 Nonmetallic Minerals 7.6 73,400 Chemicals 5.7 59,400 Coal Food Products 4.6 47,400 19% Other 22.4 275,000 Other Source: AAR analysis of industry data 37% (% based on tonnage) © 1993–2021, Association of American Railroads. For more information about railroads, visit www.aar.org. Jan. 2021 Freight Railroads in Pennsylvania Miles Operated In Pennsylvania Miles Operated Pennsylvania in 2019 2019 Totals Number Excluding Including Class I Railroads of Freight Trackage Trackage Canadian National 156 Railroads Rights Rights CSX Transportation 1,058 Norfolk Southern Corp. 2,420 Class I 3 2,424 3,634 3,634 Regional 3 730 984 Regional Railroads Short Line 55 2,035 2,212 Buffalo & Pittsburgh Railroad 655 Total 61 5,189 6,830 New York, Susquehanna & Western Railway 42 Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway 287 984 Miles Operated In Short Line Railroads Pennsylvania in 2019 Aliquippa & Ohio River Railroad 9 Short Line Railroads, cont. Allegheny Valley Railroad 77 New Castle Industrial Railroad 16 Allentown & Auburn Railroad 4 New Hope & Ivyland Railroad 19 Belvidere & Delaware River Railway 1 Nittany & Bald Eagle Railroad 125 Brandywine Valley Railroad 3 North Shore Railroad 37 Central New York Railroad 42 Oil Creek & Titusville Lines 17 Chestnut Ridge Railwayoration 5 Pennsylvania & Southern Railway 30 Columbia & Railway 3 Pennsylvania Northeastern Railroad 56 Conrail 127 Pennsylvania Southwestern Railroad 12 Delaware, Lackawaxen & Stourbridge Railroad 25 Pittsburgh & Ohio Central Railroad 38 Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad 88 Pittsburgh, Allegheny & McKees Rocks Railroad 5 East Broad Top Connecting Railroad 4 R. J. Corman Railroad - Allentown Lines 2 East Erie Commercial Railroad 5 R. J. Corman Railroad - Lehigh Line 56 East Penn Railroad 110 R. J. Corman Railroad - Luzerne and Susquehanna Line60 Eastern Berks Gateway Railroad 9 R. J. Corman Railroad - Pennsylvania Lines 243 Elizabethtown Industrial Railroad 1 Reading, Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad 341 Everett Railroad 24 Shamokin Valley Railroad 29 Gettysburg & Northern Railroad 27 SMS Rail Service 4 Ithaca Central Railroad 1 Southwest Pennsylvania Railroad 66 Juniata Valley Railroad 64 Strasburg Rail Road 5 Kasgro Rail Lines 4 Tyburn Railroad 2 Landisville Railroad 1 Union County Industrial Railroad 12 Lehigh Valley Rail Management - Bethlehem Div. 5 Union Railroad 22 Lehigh Valley Rail Management - Johnstown Div. 19 Upper Merion & Plymouth Railroad 6 Lycoming Valley Railroad 107 Wellsboro & Corning Railroad 29 Maryland Midland Railway 1 Western New York & Pennsylvania Railroad 159 Middletown & Hummelstown Railroad 7 York Railway 42 N. D. C. Railroad 1 Youngstown & Southeastern Railroad 5 2,212 Class I Railroad: A railroad with 2019 operating revenues of at least $504.8 million. Regional Railroad: A non-Class I line-haul railroad that has annual revenues of at least $40 million, or that operates at least 350 miles of road and revenues of at least $20 million. Short Line Railroad: A railroad which is neither a Class I nor a Regional Railroad. © 1993–2021, Association of American Railroads. For more information about railroads, visit www.aar.org. Jan. 2021 Freight Railroads in Pennsylvania Amtrak KCS BNSF NS CN UP CP Short Line/Regional CSX Multiple Owners Map is based on the 2020 National Transportation Atlas Database published by the U.S. DOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Some mileage figures are AAR estimates. © 1993–2021, Association of American Railroads. For more information about railroads, visit www.aar.org. Jan. 2021.
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