Table 3
Rail: 2000 Data
Miles of road operated
"120,597 miles by major (Class I) railroads "
"20,978 miles by regional railroads"
"28,937 miles by local railroads"
"22,741 miles by Amtrak1"
Equipment
1.4 million freight cars 
"20,028 freight locomotives in service"
Freight railroad firms
"Class I: 8 systems, 168,360 employees, 1.4 trillion revenue ton-miles of freight carried "
"Regional: 35 companies, 11,254 employees"
"Local: 517 companies, 12,194 employees"
Passenger (Amtrak)1
"25,000 employees, 1,894 passenger/other cars"
"378 locomotives, 22.5 million passengers carried (FY 2000)"
"1 National Railroad Passenger Corp., Annual Report 2000 (Washington, DC: 2000), also available at http://www.amtrak.com/pdf/00annualrpt.pdf, as of September 2001."
"SOURCE: Association of American Railroads, Railroad Facts: 2001 Edition (Washington, DC: 2001)."