Showcasing Railcars in Action: Open Top Hoppers. One of the most universal railcars in the railroad system today is the open top hopper. This railcar type contains different configurations of…
Railcar Tracking... Critically Important When Service Is Challenging! When I started in the railroad world several decades ago, big data for railcar maintenance was collected by railroads through readers that…
How can you tell the railroads are full? Cycle times increase dramatically (get longer), more trains are parked on sidings and mainline track with long delays between movements, bad order…
There are several current on-going events that potentially pack a wallop for rail transportation providers. Although we won’t discuss them all, I’ve highlighted a few that we think are important…
Do You Lease or Own Private Railcars? Imagine spending thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars per month to lease or hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars…
When moving a private empty freight railcar (non-tank car), there are several options. If that private railcar moves off a loaded “revenue move” (paid, loaded move) then the return trip…
There’s an interesting phenomenon occurring in the railcar market. There’s a bunch of railcars in storage. Most of those railcars are tank cars, covered hoppers for frac sand and coal…
It seems that regardless of where you’re located in the world, you’re seeing shipments of a number of products being bogged down. When you look at, as an example, consumer…
There’s an interesting phenomenon going on right now in the transportation world. All the parts, of which most are normally stable at any given time, are not stable. Turmoil may…