Texas Almanac 2014–2015

Transportation

Railroads Highways and Motor Vehicles Freight Gateways Consulates Foreign Trade Zones and Ports Aviation A train pulls up to a grain elevator in Seagraves in Gaines County. Photo by Robert Plocheck. Transportation Transportation Texas Almanac 2014–2015 664 Freight Railroads in Texas In Texas in 2010 there were 47 railroad companies operating, carrying 365.4 million tons of freight. A complete list of railroads is in the Counties section on page 235. Source: Association of American Railroads. Railroads in State Miles Operated Class I (3 – see chart at right) 12,248 Regional 0 Local (22) 1,248 Switching & Terminal (20) 1,024 Total 14,520 Total excluding trackage rights* 10,384 Railroads in State Miles Operated Class I Union Pacific Railroad Co. 6,319 BNSF Railway Co. 5,110 Kansas City Southern Railway Co. 819 *Trackage rights — track provided by another railroad. Numbers in parentheses represent the number of railroad companies in each category. Freight Traffic in Texas by Kind – 2010 Carloads originated Tons Carloads terminated Tons Chemicals 396,000 34.3 million Coal 572,600 68.7 million Gravel, crushed stone 165,800 17.2 million Gravel, crushed stone 277,200 29.1 million Petroleum/Coal 86,400 7.5 million Chemicals 279,500 24.4 million Intermodal 447,900 7.4 million Farm products 230,900 23.6 million Farm products 40,500 2.8 million Food products 165,400 11.8 million All Other 665,400 19.7 million All Other 1,375,800 42.1 million Total 1,802,000 88.9 million Total 2,901,400 199.8 million Dallam Sherman Hansford Ochiltree Lipscomb Hartley Moore Hutchinson Roberts Hemphill Oldham Potter Carson Gray Wheeler Deaf Smith Randall Armstrong Donley Collingsworth Swisher Castro Parmer Briscoe Hall Childress Hale Lamb Bailey Floyd Motley Cottle Lubbock Hockley Cochran Crosby Dickens King Lynn Terry Yoakum Garza Kent Stonewall Knox Haskell Baylor Throckmorton Archer Wilbarger Foard Hardeman Clay Jack Wise Denton Grayson Montague Cooke Wichita Young Dawson Gaines Borden Scurry Fisher Martin Andrews Loving El Paso Hudspeth Culberson Reeves Jeff Davis Pecos Presidio Brewster Terrell Crockett Val Verde Sutton Schleicher Kimble Menard McCulloch San Saba Mason Llano Gillespie Kerr Edwards Kinney Maverick Uvalde Real Bandera Zavala Dimmit Medina Frio La Salle Webb Zapata Jim Hogg Brooks Hidalgo Cameron Willacy Kenedy Kleberg Nueces San Patricio Bee Goliad Refugio DeWitt Victoria Calhoun Jackson Lavaca Caldwell Bastop Lee Milam Burleson Washington Fayette Colorado Austin W a lle r Fort Bend Brazoria Harris Montgomery Grimes Brazos Robertson Falls Limestone Freestone Leon Madison Walker San Jacinto Chambers Liberty Hardin Jefferson Orange Jasper Newton Polk Tyler Trinity Houston Anderson Henderson Smith Cherokee Angelina Nacogdoches San Augustine Shelby Rusk Gregg Wood Upshur Camp Franklin Titus Morris Bowie Cass Marion Harrison Panola Sabine Galveston Gonzales Wharton Matagorda Starr McMullen Duval Jim Wells Atascosa Bexar Kendall Comal Guadalupe Wilson Live Oak Karnes Winkler Ector Midland Glasscock Sterling Coke Runnels Coleman Brown Comanche Erath Hood Somervell Johnson Ellis Hill Bosque Hamilton Mills Lampasas Coryell McLennan Bell Burnet Williamson Blanco Travis Hays Concho Tom Green Irion Reagan Upton Crane Ward Howard Mitchell Nolan Jones Taylor Shackelford Callahan Stephens Palo Pinto Parker Tarrant Dallas Collin Fannin Hunt Rockwall Kaufman Van Zandt Rains Delta Lamar Red River Hopkins Eastland Aransas Navarro Texas Railroads 2012 Union Pacific BNSF Kansas City Southern Texas Pacifico Other Transportation 665 Mileage, maintenance and construction figures (listed by county) refer only to roads that are maintained by the state: Interstates, U.S. highways, state highways, farm-to-market roads and some loops around urban areas. Not included are city- or county-maintained streets and roads. A lane mile is one lane for one mile; i.e., one mile of four-lane highway equals four lane miles. Sources: Texas Department of Transportation and Department of Motor Vehicles, 2013. Highway Miles, Construction, Maintenance, Vehicles: 2012 Texans drove more than 22.6 million motor vehicles in 2012 over 300,000 miles of roadways, including city- and county-maintained roads. That driving is calculated to have included more than 480 million miles driven daily on the 194,887 miles of state-maintained highways alone. The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is responsible for state highway construction and maintenance, planning for future road expansion, administering Texas tollways and toll tags, and operating the state’s 12 official Texas Travel Information Centers and 100 safety rest areas. County Vehicles Registered Lane Miles of Highway Vehicle Miles Driven Daily State Construction Expenditures Combined Construction...