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In 2023, BNSF Railway was ranked first among North American railroad companies, with over ** carloads of freight transported. 

Focus on Norfolk Southern Railway

Norfolk Southern Railway is one of the U.S. Class I freight railroads operating on approximately * miles of tracks in the Southeast, East, and Midwest of the United States. It began operations in 1982 under the parent company, Norfolk Southern Corporation, and has been headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia since 2021. The company is a major transporter of coal, automotive, and industrial products, operating a fleet younger than the average age of the North American locomotive fleet.

In the 2022 fiscal year, the company employed around * people. In that same fiscal year, it generated almost **** billion U.S. dollars in revenue from its three major business lines – general merchandise, intermodal, and coal. Commodities such as chemical, agricultural, metal,revenue share and construction products make up the railroad’s highest share of revenue.

The railroad is among the leading North American railway company in terms of revenue-ton miles and carloads. According to Forbes, the company was valued at around billion U.S. dollars in 2024, ranking it fifth among the world’s largest railway companies. In April 2016, a proposed merger worth almost ** billion U.S. dollars was dropped when Canadian Pacific Railway failed to acquire Norfolk Southern after facing heavy resistance from other peer railway companies.