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abh consulting — transportation analysis & consulting1230 Park Ave. Suite 4A, New York, NY 10128
212-595-0457; Cell: 917-520-7101
www.abhatchconsulting.comDescription of services: abh consulting is the business title for Anthony Hatch, an independent railroad analyst with more than 30 years of Wall Street experience. Hatch serves the investment community (both public and private), as well as the railroad industry.Contact: Anthony Hatch, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.AllTranstek LLC1101 W. 31st St., Suite 200, Downers Grove, IL 60515
630-325-9977 | Fax: 630-325-9978
www.alltranstek.com | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Description of services: Rail car: Fleet maintenance management, technical and strategic consulting services, maintenance management software development, regulatory compliance, training and inspection services.Contact: Richard Kloster, Senior Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer, 847-544-6760; email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.CPCS72 Chamberlain Ave., Ottawa, Ontario K1S 1V9
613-237-2500
www.cpcstrans.com | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Description of services: CPCS is a management consulting firm providing strategic advisory services specific to transportation and power infrastructure, operations, investment, policy and regulation. The firm specializes in mobilizing private investment for public infrastructure, specifically through public-private partnerships. Rail services include engineering design, market studies, operations/capacity analysis and modeling, rolling stock assessment, infrastructure condition assessment, financial and economic analysis, railway business analysis and planning, and community engagement, according to the company’s website.Economic Planning Associates1050 W. Jericho Turnpike, Smithtown, NY 11787
631-864-4900 | Fax: 631-864-4932
www.epainc.com | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Description of services: Economic and rail-car consulting.Contact: Peter M. Toja, PresidentEdward D. Biggs III LLC d/b/a Biggs Appraisal2255 Sumter Lake Drive, Marietta, GA 30062
404-625-4059
www.biggsappraisal.com | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Description of services: Rail equipment appraisal and inspection.Contact: Edward D. Biggs III, PresidentFTR1720 N. Kinser Pike - Suite 210, Bloomington, IN 47404
888-988-1699 | Fax: 877-222-9060
www.FTRintel.com/railguide | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Description of services: For more than two decades, FTR has offered forecasting and analysis for freight transportation and equipment demand for the North American market. The company’s forecasters collect and analyze data likely to impact freight demand and movement, and issue reports for rail, intermodal and truck transportation. FTR also provides demand analysis for rail cars and commercial vehicles.Contact: Eric Starks, President, 888-988-1699 x41, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.The Greenbrier Cos. Inc.See LESSORSHarral Winner Thompson Sharp Klein Inc. (HWTSK)8606 Timber Hill Lane, Potomac, MD 20854
301-983-9098 (U.S.) | +44 207-354-3451 (U.K.)
www.hwtsk.com
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Description of services: HWTSK provides management consulting services to railway enterprises, governments, rail industry suppliers, investors, entrepreneurs and financial institutions involved in transactions in the rail sector. The firm specializes in reforming and restructuring state-owned railways, including urban and suburban transport systems, and freight and passenger railways. HWTSK provides due diligence services in rail acquisitions and equipment financing transactions, including evaluation of fleet condition, future value and earning potential of acquired assets. Since 1998, HWTSK has acted as advisers on a number of public and private financing transactions, including more than $25 billion in transactions for freight cars, passenger rolling stock, locomotives, maintenance equipment and infrastructure.Contact: John H. Winner, President and CEO, 301-983-9098, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.NorthEast Logistics Systems LLC59 Fountain St., Suite 300, Framingham, MA 01702
617-418-3570 | Fax: 978-268-5080
www.nels.us.com | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Description of services: NorthEast Logistics Systems LLC (NELS) offers comprehensive data transformation services which utilize the company’s proprietary database of rail network assets and locations, with the ability to integrate GPS and CLM data feeds. NELS provides its clients with analytical tools and diagnostics needed to assess rail traffic performance issues. NELS can improve asset utilization, reduce risk and lower total transportation costs, thus improving operational efficiencies, the company says.Contact: Richard E. Flynn, President and Founder, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Nossaman LLP1666 K Street NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20006
202-887-1400 | Fax: 202-466-3215
www.nossaman.comDescription of services: Nossaman LLP’s railroad attorneys have “in-depth transactional and regulatory experience on a wide range of freight and passenger rail projects,” the company says. The railroad attorneys advise freight and passenger railroads, ports, shippers, rolling stock and equipment manufacturers and lessors and service companies on rail sector mergers and acquisitions; a wide range of STB, FRA and FTA compliance issues; and procurement of construction, maintenance, operations and professional services.Oliver Wyman200 Clarendon St., Boston, MA 02118
617-424-3510 | Fax: 617-424-3871
www.oliverwymangroup.comDescription of services: Oliver Wyman provides asset valuation, fleet strategy, due diligence and M&A services.Contact: William J. Rennicke, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.PLG Consulting2 N. LaSalle St., 14th Floor, Chicago, IL 60602
312-957-7757
www.plgconsulting.comDescription of services: Consulting services for the bulk logistics, freight-rail, energy and chemical industries.Contact: Taylor Robinson, President, 508-982-1319, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) LLC300 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10017-6204
646-471-3000 | Fax: 813-286-6000
www.pwc.com/gx/en/industries/transportation-logistics.htmlDescription of services: PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) LLC is a global firm that serves transportation and logistics clients and helps them “solve their strategy to execution challenges” by delivering consulting, tax and audit services, the company says. PwC offers fleet assessment, lease encumbered valuation (discounted cash flow analysis), residual value forecasting, above/below market lease analysis, impairment analysis, assessment of maintenance issues and effect on value, advice/implementation of lease accounting standards and impact to data and systems.Contact: Jeffery P. Elliott, Managing Director, 267-330-3186 (office), 267-750-8961 (mobile), This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Railroad Appraisal Associates1914 Springdale Drive, Spring Grove, IL 60081
815-675-3300
www.railroadappraisals.comDescription of services: Railroad Appraisal Associates offers rail-car and locomotive appraisals and inspections.Contact: Patrick J. Mazzanti, President, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Railroad Industries Inc.8098 Anselmo Ct., Reno, NV 89523
775-329-4855 | Fax: 775-825-6578
www.railroadindustries.com | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Description of services: The company offers equipment and track inspections, and appraisals; rail-line evaluations; maintenance costing and lease term valuations; repair and upgrade costing; rail equipment and service forecasting; and equipment utilization planning based on operations and railroad service.RailSolutions Inc.1307 Jamestown Road, Suite 101, Williamsburg, VA 23185
757-903-4606 | Fax: 757-903-4705
www.railsolutionsinc.comDescription of services: RailSolutions Inc. provides a variety of railroad equipment-related consulting, technical and advisory services to financial institutions, railroads, shippers and fleet operators, with a primary focus on equipment valuation and appraisal services. Additional services include rail-car and locomotive inspections, remarketing services, equipment repair and overhaul cost analyses, and portfolio valuations.Contact: James D. Husband, President, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.RALCO LLCSee LESSORSShughart Consulting LLC5216 Lourcey Road, Jacksonville, FL 32257-1146
352-284-1250
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Description of services: Shughart Consulting LLC provides railway consulting, expert witness services, economic analyses, due diligence, business case modeling and operations management improvement programs. The company has extensive experience in the revitalization of existing colonial railways and developing bankable feasibility studies for proposed new railway corridors, and its analytical models are designed to assist investor clients in analyzing railway financial, operational and pricing performance. The company provides strategic advisory services to railway financiers, carriers, shippers and manufacturers.Contact: Larry ShughartStrategic Rail Finance1700 Sansom St., Suite 500, Philadelphia, PA 19103
215-564-3122 | Fax: 215-564-3288
www.strategicrail.com | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Description of services: Strategic Rail Finance, which has served as an adviser to the railroad industry for 20 years, helps clients plan and finance equipment, infrastructure, growth strategies and acquisitions.Contact: Michael Sussman, Founder and President, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Tealinc Ltd.See EQUIPMENT PROVIDERSVanness Co. Inc.830-13 A1A North - Suite 204, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082
904-280-1898 | Fax: 904-280-1899
www.vannesscompany.com | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Description of services: Strategic and financial consulting for railroads.Contact: Chris Rooney, President previous page
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American Railcar Industries Inc.See EQUIPMENT PROVIDERS/EQUIPMENT MANAGEMENT SERVICESThe Andersons Inc.480 W. Dussel Drive, Maumee, OH 43537
419-893-5050 | www.andersonsrail.com/leasingDescription of services: Rail-car leasing and repair.Contact: Chuck Brown, VP Sales, 419-891-6386, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.CAI InternationalSteuart Tower, One Market Plaza, 9th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105
415-788-0100 | www.capps.comDescription of services: Operating lessor; marine shipping containers, rail cars, logistics services. Offers a broad range of tank and covered hopper cars.Contact: James H. Magee, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, 415-271-4861, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.CarMath Inc.25965 482nd Ave., Brandon, SD 57005
605-582-8340 | Fax: 605-582-8304
www.carmathinc.com | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Description of services: CarMath Inc. provides rail-car leasing services. CarMath offers "decades of industry experience" and can help customers choose the lease type that best "fits [their] needs, the company says.Chicago Freight Car Leasing Co.425 Martingale Road, Sixth Floor, Schaumburg, IL 60173
847-318-8000 | www.crdx.com
Description of services: Full-service rail-car lessor offering a broad range of tank and covered hopper cars.Contact: Todd Kahn, VP of Portfolio Management & Marketing,
847-384-4434, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.CIT Rail30 S. Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 60606
312-906-5701 | www.citrail.comDescription of services: CIT Rail offers leasing solutions to rail shippers and carriers throughout North America and Europe, and “leverages deep experience and one of the youngest, most diversified rail-car and locomotive fleets in the industry,” as the company puts it. CIT owns and manages a fleet of more than 120,000 rail cars and 500 locomotives (counts reflect North American fleet only).Contact: Donald Bradley, Senior VP Strategic Marketing, 312-906-5786, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.C.K. Industries Inc.P.O. Box 1029, Lake Zurich, IL 60047
847-550-1856 | Fax: 847-550-1854
www.ckindustries.netDescription of services: C.K. Industries Inc., a privately held corporation, offers its services to shippers and Class I, regional and short-line railroads in North America. New investment opportunities up to $10 million in both new and used freight cars will be considered. The company’s existing fleet comprises a variety of car types. The company offers mid- to long-terms, either on a full-service or triple-net basis.Contact: Brian Harris, Director of Sales, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Connell Finance Co. Inc.200 Connell Drive, Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922
908-673-3700 | Fax: 908-673-3800Description of services: Lessor of railroad cars and locomotives; remarketing services to lessors of rail assets.Contact: Kenneth W. O’Neill, Senior VP, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.The David J. Joseph Co.300 Pike St., Cincinnati, OH 45202
513-419-6200
www.djj.comDescription of services: The David J. Joseph Co.’s Rail Group provides a broad range of transportation services throughout North America: single investor, leverage leases, freight cars, portfolio evaluation, remarketing fleet management, purchases and sales of portfolios and private fleet management. Other services include freight-car inspections and engineering services from design of new cars to complete ISL extended life, modifications and analysis; and rail-car dismantling for scrapping and parts reclamation.Contacts: Trey W. Savage, VP Rail Group, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; Ryan Eckert, GM Rail Equipment Group, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; Dan Dorsey, GM Private Fleet; Tom Pellington, Sr. Dir. Rail Equipment Services, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; Steve Skeels, Chief Mechanical Officer, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.ECN Capital Rail Finance LLC150 N. Wacker Drive, Suite 2450 , Chicago, IL 60606
312-982-8701 | Fax: 312-982-8699
www.ecncapitalcorp.comDescription of services: ECN Capital Rail Finance LLC provides finance and lease solutions for rail rolling stock in North America.Contact: Harry Zander, Senior Vice President, 312-982-8701, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Florail Inc.P.O. Box 2089, DeLand, FL 32021
386-738-7611 | Fax: 386-738-7611
www.florail.netDescription of services: Rail-car lessor.Contact: Claude Bigot, President, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.GATX Corp.222 W. Adams St., Chicago, IL 60606
312-621-6200 | Fax: 312-621-6648
www.gatx.com | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Description of services: GATX Corp. “strives to be recognized as the finest rail-car leasing company in the world by its customers, its shareholders, its employees and the communities where it operates,” according to the company. GATX has been providing rail cars and services to its customers for more than 118 years. The company has been headquartered in Chicago since its founding in 1898.Contact: Thomas A. Ellman, Executive VP and President, Rail North America, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.GLNX Corp.2201 Timberloch Place, Suite 125, The Woodlands, TX 77380
281-363-7057 | Fax: 281-363-7060
www.glnx.comDescription of services: GLNX is a full-service operating lessor of owned and managed tank cars. The company also offers fleet management and seeks acquisitions of rail-car portfolios and sale/leaseback programs.Contact: Jerry Sagehorn, VP Sales and Marketing, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.The Greenbrier Cos. Inc.One Centerpointe Drive - Suite 200, Lake Oswego, OR 97035
503-684-7000 | Fax: 503-684-7553
www.gbrx.com | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Description of services: The Greenbrier Cos. Inc. supplies transportation equipment and services to the railroad and marine industries. The company builds freight cars in its four manufacturing facilities in the United States and Mexico — specifically, it designs and produces intermodal, box car, gondola, tank car and covered hopper rail cars. Customers include railroads, shippers and leasing companies. In Europe, the company builds and refurbishes railroad freight wagons through its operation in Poland. Greenbrier also offers repair and refurbishment services on all rail-car types through a joint venture called GBW Railcar Services LLC. GBW has over 30 locations, including 12 tank-car repair and maintenance facilities certified by the Association of American Railroads. Greenbrier also sells reconditioned wheelsets and provides wheel services at nine U.S. locations. Greenbrier has a lease fleet of over 9,000 rail cars and performs management services for customers on about 269,000 rail cars.Contact: Larry Stanley, SVP Finance, 503-684-7000Herzog Railroad Services Inc.P.O. Box 518, St. Joseph, MO 64502
816-233-9002 | Fax: 816-233-7757
www.hrsi.comDescription of services: Rail-car leasing, specialized equipment leasing, AAR-certified rail-car repair and rail-car unloading services.Contact: Ryan Crawford, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.HZRX-Locomotive Leasing LLC2800 W 3rd St., Cleveland, OH 44113
440-788-8009 | Fax: 216-731-0034
www.horizonrail.comDescription of services: Locomotive parts, sales, rebuild and service.Contact: Jon Jaros, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Infinity Rail1355 Peachtree St. NE, Suite 750 - South Tower, Atlanta, GA 30309
678-904-6335 | Fax: 678-904-6310
www.infinityrail.com | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Description of services: Infinity Rail is a lessor of private rolling stock, with options for a variety of lease packages and flexibility regarding rail-car modifications.Contact: Larry Smith, VP - Equipment Sales, 678-296-9709, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; Lee Martini, VP - Equipment Sales, 678-904-6315, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.JAIX Leasing Co. (FreightCar America Inc.)Two North Riverside Plaza, Suite 1300, Chicago, IL 60606
312-928-0850 | Fax: 312-928-0890
www.freightcaramerica.comDescription of services: Railroad freight-car builder and lessor.Contact: Ted Baun, Chief Commercial Officer, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Mitsui Rail Capital LLCOne South Wacker Drive, Suite 3100, Chicago, IL 60606
312-803-8851 | www.mrc-rail.comDescription of services: Rail-car lessor.Contact: Chris Gerber, VP of Sales and Marketing, 212-803-8851, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.NRE908 Shawnee St., Mt. Vernon, IL 62864
618-241-9270
www.nre.com | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. of services: NRE is an independent supplier of locomotive servicing, new and remanufactured locomotives, leasing, field services, parts and salvage operations. The company offers clients multiple facilities with large capacity and quick turnaround, plants on main lines for easy access and flexible work scopes.Contact: Mike Zerafa, VP of Domestic Business Development, 618-241-9270, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.PNC Equipment FinanceSee BANKSProgress Rail15173 North Road, Fenton, MI 48430
810-714-4626 | Fax: 810-714-4680
www.progressrail.com | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Description of services: Full-service lessor of maintenance-of-way equipment. Progress Rail offers a host of programs and services tailored to meet customers’ financial needs, the company says.RALCO LLC200 S. Wacker Drive - Suite 3100, Chicago, IL 60606
312-674-4742 | Fax: 312-421-2742
www.ralcoleasing.comDescription of services: Equipment lessor, consulting and management services.Contact: Peter R. Urban, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.RESIDCO70 W. Madison, Suite 2340, Chicago, IL 60602
312-726-0695
www.residco.com | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Description of services: RESIDCO is a transportation equipment lessor and asset management company that operates and manages a fleet of more than 7,000 freight cars and locomotives. Since its 1982 inception, RESIDCO has specialized in the trading, acquisition, syndication, leasing and financing of rail equipment representing every major car type, involving more than 70,000 rail cars.RGCX Ltd.907 Lindberg Ave., McAllen, TX 78501
800-822-7429 | www.rgcx.comDescription of services: Rail-car lessor.Contact: David Bertram, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.SMBC Rail Services LLC300 S. Riverside Plaza - Ste. 1925, Chicago, IL 60606
312-559-4800 or 800-4RAILCAR | Fax: 312-559-4829
www.smbcrail.comDescription of services: Full-service operating lessor.Contact: Gene Henneberry, President and CEO, 312-559-4801, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; Tim Johnson, Senior VP - Leasing, 312-559-4805, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Tealinc Ltd.See EQUIPMENT PROVIDERSTrinity Industries Leasing Co.2525 Stemmons Freeway, Dallas, TX 75207
800-631-4420 | Fax: 214-589-8623
www.gotilc.comDescription of services: Trinity Industries Leasing Co., with a total owned and managed leased fleet of about 102,000 rail cars, offers leasing, management and rail-car maintenance services. The company also offers access to the rail-car manufacturing resources and additional rail-car services provided by TrinityRail. An overview of TrinityRail’s full portfolio of rail transportation products and services is available at www.trinityrail.com.Contact: Stephen Menzies, Group President, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; Eric Marchetto, Executive VP and Chief Financial Officer, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; Brian Madison, President, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; John Guarino, VP, Portfolio Management, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; Tom Jardine, VP, Pricing & Contracts, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; Jesse Crews, VP & Chief Investment Officer, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Union Tank Car Co.175 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago, IL 60604
312-431-3111 | www.utlx.comDescription of services: Union Tank Car (UTLX) is a Marmon Group LLC/Berkshire Hathaway Inc. company. UTLX and Canadian affiliate Procor lease, manufacture and maintain railroad tank cars.Vertex Railcar Corp.See EQUIPMENT PROVIDERSVTG Rail103 West Vandalia, Ste. 200, Edwardsville, IL 62025
618-343-0600 | Fax: 618-343-9015
www.VTG.com | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Description of services: Rail-car leasing and maintenance management.Contact: Lynn Hayungs, Regional VP Sales, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Wells Fargo Rail9377 W. Higgins Road, Suite 600, Rosemont, IL 60018
847-318-7575
www.wellsfargorail.com | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Description of services: Wells Fargo Rail is an operating lessor with more than 175,000 rail cars and 1,800 locomotives. The company serves the North American market for rail equipment with customers in the United States, Canada and Mexico, and provides services such as equipment modifications, equipment maintenance, customized lease terms, a variety of leasing options, rail-car accounting, equipment management, flexible rates and financing.Contact: Chanel Smith, Rail Client Manager, 312-345-1167, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. previous page next page
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DVB Bank SE Representative Office New YorkSee BANKSEdgePoint Capital Advisors LLC2000 Auburn Drive, Suite 330, Beachwood, OH 44122
216-342-5859 | Fax: 216-831-2464
www.edgepoint.com | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Description of services: EdgePoint, which comprises 17 M&A professionals, is an investment bank “with global reach” that advises clients on sale, divestiture, acquisition, financing and similar middle-market transactions. EdgePoint has more than a decade of transaction and industry experience in and “a special commitment to” serving the railroad and supply industries, according to the company. EdgePoint is a member of FINRA, SIPC and the Alliance of International Corporate Advisors. The company has a “close working relationship” with The McIntire Group, an international railroad consultancy.Contact: Russell J. Warren, Managing Director previous page next page
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AllTranstek LLCSee PROFESSIONAL SERVICES/CONSULTINGAmerican Railcar Industries Inc.100 Clark St., St. Charles, MO 63301
636-940-6000
www.americanrailcar.com | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Description of services: Rail-car design and manufacture, rail-car leasing, rail-car repair services, rail-car components.Chicago Freight Car Leasing Co.See LESSORSCIT RailSee LESSORSConnell Finance Co. Inc.See LESSORSFreightCar America Inc.See LESSORS (JAIX Leasing Co.)GATX Corp.See LESSORSThe Greenbrier Cos. Inc.See LESSORSHerzog Railroad Services Inc.See LESSORSKasgro Rail Corp.121 Rundle Road, New Castle, PA 16102
724-658-9061 | www.kasgro.comDescription of services: Kasgro Rail Corp. provides heavy-duty rail cars.Mitsui Rail Capital LLCSee LESSORSNational Steel Car Ltd.600 Kenilworth Avenue North
P.O. Box 2450, Hamilton, Ontario L8N 3J4
905-544-3311
www.steelcar.comDescription of services: National Steel Car Ltd. is a freight- and tank-car manufacturer.NRESee LESSORSProgress Rail Equipment LeasingSee LESSORSRALCO LLCSee LESSORSTealinc Ltd.1606 Rosebud Creek Road, Forsyth, MT 59327
720-733-9922 | Fax: 720-733-9966
www.tealinc.com | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Description of services: Tealinc Ltd. is a rail-car and locomotive operating lessor. The company buys, sells, leases and trades freight cars and locomotives; provides rail-car and locomotive marketing and management services; and provides rail transportation consulting services.Contact: Julie Mink, PresidentTrinity Industries Leasing Co.See LESSORSTTX Co.101 N. Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 60606312-853-3223 | Fax: 312-984-3892
www.ttx.com | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Description of services: TTX Co. provides rail cars and related freight car management services to the North American rail industry. TTX’s pool of more than 230,000 rail cars and intermodal wells support shippers in the intermodal, automotive, paper and forest, metals, machinery, wind energy and other markets where flat cars, box cars and gondolas are required. TTX is owned by North America’s leading> railroads; TTX’s free-running pools provide fungible assets that minimize total empty miles, further lowering costs and minimizing risk for the industry, helping railroads conserve their capital for other critical infrastructure needs.Contact: Frank Adcock, Assistant VP Marketing, 312-984-3712,
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Union Tank Car Co.See LESSORSVertex Railcar Corp.202 Raleigh St., Wilmington, NC 28412
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www.vertexrail.com | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Description of services: Vertex Railcar Corp. operates a 68-acre, 500,000-square-foot rail-car manufacturing facility in Wilmington, N.C. Vertex can produce up to 8,000 rail cars per year, and can provide design support and rapid delivery of standard or specialized freight cars, the company says. The company offers a variety of car types from oil, chemical, and food-grade tanks to hoppers, gondolas and flat cars. Its special patented gate designs for its aggregate and hopper cars allow for rapid discharge with little or no “on track” maintenance once unloading is complete. The company can sell and lease the cars it builds.Contact: Mara Chiarilli, Marketing Coordinator, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Wells Fargo RailSee LESSORS previous page next page
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DVB Bank SE Representative Office New York609 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10017
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www.dvbbank.comDescription of services: DVB Bank’s Land Transport Finance Division, with New York and Frankfurt offices and a dedicated rail team, provides senior-secured asset financing loans for new/used rail cars and locomotives for operating companies, as well as equipment manufacturers and leasing companies. Product offerings include structured debt into leveraged lease, mezzanine and junior debt, mortgage financing, debt underwriting, as well as international mergers and acquisitions advisory, debt and equity capital markets advice offerings, including asset backed securities, and cross border lease arrangement focused on rolling stock assets.Contact: United States — Joe Devoe, Managing Director and Chief Representative, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., 212-858-2616.
Europe — Martin Metz, Managing Director and Head of Land Transport Finance, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., +49-69-97504-350PNC Equipment Finance995 Dalton Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45203
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2/13/2017    

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The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) will withhold five percent of federal funds to the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia until a new Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) State Safety Oversight Program (SSOP) is in place.

FTA notified the transit systems in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia that effective immediately the transit formula funds from Fiscal Year 2017 will be held until a SSOP is certified for WMATA rail operations. The funds will be withheld until the jurisdictions pass identical legislation and meet related requirements in order for FTA to certify a new SSOP for WMATA Metrorail and can be restored once the jurisdictions establish a federally-compliant, FTA-certified SSOP.

2/13/2017    

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The Alaska Railroad Corporation (ARRC), citing reduced business and revenues, has cut 49 positions, laying off 31 employees.

ARRC said the current round of position eliminations is part of a "major corporate restructuring effort" as the railroad attempts to counter a 44-percent downturn in freight tonnage since 2008. Of the 49 positions eliminated, 18 were left vacant, lowering the actual lay offs to 31 employees.

Dewberry, a privately held professional services firm, has been selected by the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) to develop a transportation and freight master plan for the new Carolina Connector (CCX) intermodal train hub in Rocky Mount, N.C. This facility will serve as a major intermodal transportation center for CSX in the southeast.

Dewberry's efforts will focus on the transportation connections to potential freight nodes across the state and the strategic infrastructure investments that will be crucial to the success of the facility. In addition, the firm will identify key markets for targeted future investment to facilitate continued growth for the benefit of the Eastern North Carolina region and the state.

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CSX Corp. announced late last week that its board has extended the deadline until Feb. 24 to nominate directors and to propose other business to be considered at its 2017 annual meeting.The original deadline was Feb. 10. Any director nominations or proposals of other business that comply with the company's bylaws that are received by Feb. 24 may be brought before shareholders for a vote at the annual meeting.The extended deadline move comes as CSX continues to have discussions with former Canadian Pacific Chief Executive Officer E. Hunter Harrison and activist investor Paul Hilal of Mantle Ridge LP. CSX is discussing a potential contract that would make Harrison CEO of CSX, according to reports by The Wall Street Journal. The newspaper reported that Hilal has requested six seats on CSX's board.CSX, Harrison and Hilal were scheduled to meet Feb. 10 to discuss the proposal. Contact Progressive Railroading editorial staff. More News from 2/13/2017

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— By This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., EditorWhile near-term economic forecasts are murky, particularly in a global context, the regulatory and legislative issues on U.S. railroaders’ minds are the same as they’ve been for the past several years, as Senior Associate Editor Julie Sneider notes in this month’s cover story. What’s changed are the political and rhetorical environments in which those issues might be debated in the months ahead.It’s a pretty safe bet railroads won’t have to work too hard to convince regulators or legislators to preserve or pare back regs. President Trump and the new Congress have been clear about how they feel about regulation. And that’s giving the association representatives that Sneider interviewed — as well as rail finance and leasing execs we surveyed during the information-gathering process for our 17th annual Finance & Leasing Guide — cause for optimism about the near term.Less certain is whether the new administration and Congress will side with the rail industry on (or even consider) other matters this year — whether it’s the bigger/heavier trucks issue or the call to extend the short-line tax credit. Then there’s the trade agreement and tariff talk, and the potential intermodal implications that go with it. Ultimately, it’s unclear where rail will rate on the urgency meter in 2017. Frankly, it’s unclear every year. But in 2017, the winds of change in Washington may sweep more than a few industry-specific issues off the discussion table. Or at least off to the side for a spell.Perhaps we’ll know more next month. On March 2, railroaders will be in Washington, D.C., to deliver their message(s) to congressfolk at Railroad Day on Capitol Hill. I’ll be doing my usual fly-on-the-wall observing and listening. I’ll report back — on the tone and tenor of the conversations, if nothing else.More star power at Secure Rail 2017We recently added more star power to the already-stellar lineup of speakers for Secure Rail 2017. Laird Pitz, vice president and chief risk officer for CP, and Jim McKenney, solutions architect-operational technology for CSX, have signed on as presenters at this year’s conference, which will be held April 5-6 at the Rosen Plaza Hotel in Orlando, Fla.Other presenters at our third annual conference will discuss the latest risks and threats to physical and cybersecurity, how to anticipate future threats, and other topics, including managing and protecting employees, passengers and assets. In all, there are more than 20 scheduled conference sessions.The theme of Secure Rail 2017 — the only conference that addresses North American rail security from an organizational perspective on both physical and cybersecurity — is “Protection, Prevention and Planning for the Future.”For more information or to register, visit SecureRailConference.com.
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2/10/2017    

Rail News: Intermodal