{"id":3863,"date":"2014-02-24T15:41:04","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T21:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/?page_id=3863"},"modified":"2018-12-06T21:42:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T21:42:07","slug":"rail","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/freight-system\/rail\/","title":{"rendered":"Rail"},"content":{"rendered":"

Transporting freight by rail offers more origin and destination pairs than maritime transportation and increased efficiency in long haul moves compared to trucking.\u00a0 A single unit train has the carrying capacity of 525 trucks and half that of a 15-barge tow.\u00a0 Similarly, rail can move one ton of freight 413 miles per gallon of fuel compare to 155 for trucking and 576 for inland maritime<\/a>. Rail is typically used for long-haul routes; the Association of American Railroads reports that in 2011 the average length of haul was 917.2 miles.\u00a0 Figure 1 shows both rail-related industry and the Class 1 rail network.\u00a0 Class 1 railroads<\/a> are freight railroads with a 2011 operating revenue of $433.2 million or more.<\/p>\n

Figure 1: Class I Railroads and Railroad Businesses<\/h4>\n

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Source: Esri Business Analyst<\/a><\/em>, 2011<\/p>\n

The total employment for the freight transporting railroad industry is calculated from querying all line-haul and short-line railroads from ESRI\u2019s Business Analyst data set.\u00a0 The query was not able to completely remove passenger railways because of how the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS<\/a>) is constructed.\u00a0 The total employment reported in Table 1 is an overestimate of the total jobs and businesses that are directly attributable to the transportation of freight via railway.<\/p>\n

Table 1: Railroad Businesses and Employment in the MAFC<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
State<\/td>\nRailroad Employment<\/td>\nRailroad Businesses<\/td>\nTotal State Employment<\/td>\nTotal Business Count<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Iowa<\/td>\n1,493<\/td>\n143<\/td>\n1,607,190<\/td>\n136,378<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Illinois<\/td>\n9,465<\/td>\n632<\/td>\n5,884,453<\/td>\n476,575<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Indiana<\/td>\n4,665<\/td>\n244<\/td>\n2,938,335<\/td>\n222,320<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kansas<\/td>\n1,848<\/td>\n124<\/td>\n1,407,272<\/td>\n123,790<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kentucky<\/td>\n1,595<\/td>\n169<\/td>\n1,819,898<\/td>\n153,924<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Michigan<\/td>\n4,173<\/td>\n346<\/td>\n4,305,125<\/td>\n371,368<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Minnesota<\/td>\n2,763<\/td>\n218<\/td>\n2,888,004<\/td>\n221,993<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Missouri<\/td>\n3,633<\/td>\n215<\/td>\n2,883,801<\/td>\n239,690<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ohio<\/td>\n6,560<\/td>\n442<\/td>\n5,634,785<\/td>\n413,878<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wisconsin<\/td>\n4,341<\/td>\n183<\/td>\n3,063,309<\/td>\n244,656<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MAFC<\/td>\n40,536<\/td>\n2,716<\/td>\n32,432,172<\/td>\n2,604,572<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Source: Esri Business Analyst<\/a><\/em>, 2011
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Transporting freight by rail offers more origin and destination pairs than maritime transportation and increased efficiency in long haul moves compared to trucking.\u00a0 A single unit train has the carrying capacity of 525 trucks and half that of a 15-barge tow.\u00a0 Similarly, rail can move one ton of freight 413 miles per gallon of fuel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":2560,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-rfs.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3863","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3863"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10115,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3863\/revisions\/10115"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}