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Closer Look - Open Top Hopper

Open Top Hoppers are designed to carry bulk materials, especially coal, and other mining industry products such as crushed stone, aggregate materials, and ores. The vast majority of this fleet’s traffic base is comprised of coal, a commodity struggling to maintain its historic shipment volumes.

Despite its reliance on coal, the Open Top Hopper fleet includes some segments that have a favorable outlook and will benefit from a slightly more diverse commodity base.
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Learn where new investment is expected to take place for Open Top Hoppers and how this fleet’s demographics are responding to challenging coal markets.

​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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