Closer Look - Tank Car

The 2019 Tank Car Closer Look Report is now available!

Tank Cars are a highly specialized fleet of railcars equipped to haul a wide assortment of liquids and gases. Because of the volatile and hazardous characteristics of many of these commodities, tank cars are outfitted with a large number of appurtenances designed to prevent the release of commodity from the car, prevent damage to the car, and facilitate the safe handling of products with corrosive properties.

Of all the major car types, Tank Cars have the most historically stable investment activity. However, a pair of heavy build cycles over the past decade has grown this fleet at an exponential rate.

Learn about how the Tank Car fleet has been adapting to the extremely active market and how this fleet fares moving forward.

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

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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