Closer Look - Gondola

Gondolas are an open topped car design and typically feature no bottom unloading capabilities. The vast majority of this fleet’s traffic base is comprised of coal, a commodity failing to maintain traditional shipment volumes witnessed over the past 20 years. The demise of coal has come at the hands of cheap natural gas, and the consequences of deteriorating rail coal volumes have been severe for Gondola equipment.

Learn where new investment is expected to take place for the Gondola fleet, and how this fleet’s demographics are responding to the new world of coal shipping.

​This report contains...

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

Fleet analysis using a unique car type segmentation scheme of eight sub-segments

​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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