Closer Look - Box Car

Box Cars are a versatile, enclosed car type used to ship a variety of general freight products. Because of the Box Car broad purposed design, a large portion of this equipment is included in “railroad pools” which allow efficient shipping by preventing empty haul movements, a luxury not realized by the more specialized railcar types. 

The significant cost of building new Box Car equipment, combined with modally competitive shipping options, has caused this fleet to struggle since the 1980s. Despite modal shift, some industries are still heavily reliant on the Box Car to serve their shipping needs.
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Learn how the Box Car fleet demographics are changing with limited new investment, and learn where new investment is expected to take place for the future.

​This report contains...

• Fleet analysis using a unique car type segmentation scheme of ten sub-segments
• Current fleet sizes for each sub-segment
• Unique characteristics inherent to sub-segments
• Snapshot of each fleet segment’s age profile allocated by 5- year buckets over a car’s 50-year life
• Ownership mix profiles across railroads, shippers, and leasing companies
• Historic deliveries, retirements, and utilization
• Forecasts and projections by fleet segment: new car deliveries and retirements
• Current and historic traffic activity across car types
• Traffic shares, commodity drivers, and industry drivers
• AllTranstek’s unique Car Demand Pressure Index, illustrating the relationship between fleet size and shipping activity since 2007
• Fleet ownership mix, age profile, retirement trends, and new equipment delivery forecast for the fleet as a whole
• Pictures and illustrations of select car types, unique components, and important commodities

​AllTranstek rail equipment intelligence is coupled with FTR dynamic forecasting models and analysis in a collaborative methodology, delivering the most comprehensive rail equipment forecasting report to the industry.

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