Closer Look - Flat Car

Flat Cars are open decked cars designed to carry large products that may not fit within the confined spaces of other railcar types. Over the years, this fleet has become segmented into specialized functional areas. The variety of car types in the Flat Car fleet have large disparities in performance depending on the markets they serve. Investment rates in flat cars have been relatively strong versus some other equipment categories.
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Learn about the ownership trends in this car type, and the expectations for new investment across the various sub-segments of the Flat Car fleet.

​This report contains...

• Fleet analysis using a unique car type segmentation scheme of eight 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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