NAICS 488210 · Transportation and Warehousing
Support Activities for Rail Transportation: Business Name Ideas
48 name ideas, the official industry definition, and 1,761 U.S. business locations broken down by state.
What this industry covers
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing specialized services for railroad transportation including servicing, routine repairing (except factory conversion, overhaul, or rebuilding of rolling stock), and maintaining rail cars; loading and unloading rail cars; and operating independent terminals.
Businesses classified here include
- Freight car cleaning services
- Grain leveling and trimming in railroad cars
- Loading and unloading services at rail terminals
- Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding)
- Maintenance of rights of way and structures, railway
- Railroad switching services
- Railroad terminals, independent operation
- Railway terminals, independent operation
- Shunting trailers in rail terminals
- Switching services, railroad
Definition and examples from the 2017 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS 488210), U.S. Census Bureau.
Name ideas for support activities for rail transportation
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U.S. business numbers
Locations by number of employees nationwide
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2022. Counts cover employer establishments (businesses with paid employees); self-employed owners without staff are not included. Small establishments with 1–4 employees include those that reported no paid employees in mid-March.
Top states for support activities for rail transportation
- Texas 243 locations
- Illinois 113 locations
- California 106 locations
- Ohio 106 locations
- Georgia 87 locations
- Florida 77 locations
- Utah 64 locations
- Pennsylvania 61 locations
- Alabama 51 locations
- Indiana 49 locations
All 46 states
- Alabama (51)
- Arizona (18)
- Arkansas (18)
- California (106)
- Colorado (41)
- Connecticut (3)
- Delaware (8)
- Florida (77)
- Georgia (87)
- Idaho (6)
- Illinois (113)
- Indiana (49)
- Iowa (21)
- Kansas (27)
- Kentucky (45)
- Louisiana (49)
- Maine (8)
- Maryland (14)
- Massachusetts (17)
- Michigan (38)
- Minnesota (26)
- Mississippi (25)
- Missouri (39)
- Montana (14)
- Nebraska (24)
- Nevada (5)
- New Jersey (27)
- New Mexico (12)
- New York (39)
- North Carolina (35)
- North Dakota (20)
- Ohio (106)
- Oklahoma (14)
- Oregon (19)
- Pennsylvania (61)
- South Carolina (23)
- South Dakota (4)
- Tennessee (40)
- Texas (243)
- Utah (64)
- Vermont (7)
- Virginia (25)
- Washington (46)
- West Virginia (21)
- Wisconsin (8)
- Wyoming (15)