Table 3
Rail: 1999 Data (unless noted)

Miles of road operated
" 120,986 miles by major (Class I) railroads1"
" 21,250 miles by regional railroads1"
" 28,422 miles by local railroads1"
" 22,741 miles by Amtrak2"
Equipment1
 1.4 million freight cars
" 20,256 freight locomotives in service"
Freight railroad firms1
" Class I: 8 systems, 177,557 employees, 1.4 trillion revenue"
  ton-miles of freight carried
" Regional: 36 companies, 11,372 employees"
" Local: 510 companies, 12,454 employees"
Passenger (Amtrak)2
" 25,000 employees, 1,894 passenger/other cars"
" 378 locomotives, 22.5 million passengers carried (FY 2000)"
"1 Association of American Railroads, Railroad Facts: 2000 Edition (Washington, DC: 2000). "
"2 National Railroad Passenger Corp., Annual Report 2000 (Washington, DC: 2000), also available at http://www.amtrak.com/news/00annualrpt.pdf, as of April 2001."
"SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Statistics 2000 (Washington, DC: 2001)."