TTX Company is a private company that owns a large fleet of freight cars and provides them to stockholding railroads. It also provides freightcar management services (information and accounting). TTX is the largest railroad car

Railroad car

A railroad car or railway vehicle , also known as a bogie in Indian English, is a vehicle on a rail transport system that is used for the carrying of cargo or passengers. Cars can be coupled together into a train and hauled by one or more locomotives...

 provider in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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History

TTX was originally founded in 1955 by the Pennsylvania Railroad

Pennsylvania Railroad

The Pennsylvania Railroad was an American Class I railroad, founded in 1846. Commonly referred to as the "Pennsy", the PRR was headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....

 (predeccessor to Conrail), the Norfolk and Western Railway

Norfolk and Western Railway

The Norfolk and Western Railway , a US class I railroad, was formed by more than 200 railroad mergers between 1838 and 1982. It had headquarters in Roanoke, Virginia for most of its 150 year existence....

 (predecessor to Norfolk Southern), and Rail-Trailer Corporation. 6,000 Pennsylvania Railroad employees entered possible names in a drawing for the new company, and the name "Trailer Train" won. Trailer Train's original goals were to standardize TOFC railcar practices, foster the growth of piggyback transportation, provide its members with the best available equipment at the lowest cost, and keep its members abreast of new developments. In 1991, the company changed its company name from Trailer Train to TTX.

Fleet

The TTX fleet consists of over 200,000 flatcar

Flatcar

A flatcar is a piece of railroad or railway rolling stock that consists of an open, flat deck on four or six wheels or a pair of trucks or bogies . The deck of the car can be wood or steel, and the sides of the deck can include pockets for stakes or tie-down points to secure loads...

s, double-stack car

Double-stack car

A well car, also known as a double-stack car or stack car, is a type of railroad car specially designed to carry intermodal containers used in intermodal freight transport. The "well" is a depressed section which sits close to the rails between the wheel trucks of the car, allowing a container to...

s, autorack

Autorack

An autorack, also known as an auto carrier, is a specialized piece of railroad rolling stock used to transport automobiles and light trucks, generally from factories to automotive distributors...

s, boxcar

Boxcar

A boxcar is a railroad car that is enclosed and generally used to carry general freight. The boxcar, while not the simplest freight car design, is probably the most versatile, since it can carry most loads...

s, and gondola

Gondola (rail)

In railroad terminology, a gondola is an open-top type of rolling stock that is used for carrying loose bulk materials. Because of its low side walls, gondolas are used to carry either very dense material, such as steel plates or coils, or bulky items such as prefabricated pieces of rail...

s. TTX owns a large number of reporting mark

Reporting mark

A reporting mark is a two-, three-, or four-letter alphabetic code used to identify owners or lessees of rolling stock and other equipment used on the North American railroad network. The marks are stenciled on each piece of equipment, along with a one-to-six-digit number, which together uniquely...

s, reflecting the wide variety of cars that it owns.

Ownership

The following companies own stock in TTX.

• Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.
  Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.
  Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation is the parent company of the BNSF Railway .The corporation was incorporated in 1995 to facilitate the merger of Burlington Northern, Incorporated, parent of the Burlington Northern Railroad, and Santa Fe Pacific Corporation, which owned the Atchison, Topeka...
  
  
• Boston and Maine Railroad
  Boston and Maine Railroad
  The Boston and Maine Corporation , known as the Boston and Maine Railroad until 1964, was the dominant railroad of the northern New England region of the United States for a century...
  
  
• Canadian National Railway
  Canadian National Railway
  The Canadian National Railway Company is a Canadian Class I railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec. CN's slogan is "North America's Railroad"....
  
  
• Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd.
  Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd.
  Canadian Pacific Railway Limited is a Canadian rail transportation company that operates the Canadian Pacific Railway. It was created in 2001 when the CPR's former parent company, Canadian Pacific Limited, spun off its railway operations. On October 3, 2001, the company's shares began to trade...
  
  
• CSX Corporation
  CSX Corporation
  CSX Corporation was formed in 1980 by the merger of Chessie System and Seaboard Coast Line Industries and eventually merged the various railroads owned by those predecessors into a single line that became known as CSX Transportation. Based in Richmond, Virginia, USA after the merger, in 2003...
  
  

• Ferromex
  Ferromex
  Ferromex is a private rail consortium that operates the largest railroad in Mexico.-Description:...
  
  
• Kansas City Southern Railway
  Kansas City Southern Railway
  The Kansas City Southern Railway , owned by Kansas City Southern Industries, is the smallest and second-oldest Class I railroad company still in operation. KCS was founded in 1887 and is currently operating in a region consisting of ten central U.S. states...
  
  
• Norfolk Southern Corp.
  Norfolk Southern Corp.
  The Norfolk Southern Corporation is a publicly-traded stock corporation based in Norfolk, Virginia. It is the holding company for the Norfolk Southern Railway, a major Class I railroad system. The company was formed in 1982 to control the Norfolk and Western Railway as well as the Southern Railway...
  
  
• Union Pacific Railroad
  Union Pacific Railroad
  The Union Pacific Railroad , headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, is the largest railroad network in the United States. James R. Young is president, CEO and Chairman....
  
  

Logo

Between 1991 and 2008, the company used a yellow and black logo.

In March 2008, the company released a new logo, colored Tuscan red

PRR equipment colors and painting

The Pennsylvania Railroad was an early proponent of standardised colors and paint schemes for its locomotives, rolling stock and other equipment.Pennsylvania Railroad locomotives were uniformly painted in a color commonly called Brunswick Green but known to the railroad as Dark Green Locomotive...

 in honor of one of the founding railroads, the Pennsylvania Railroad. The logo also contains the company's new slogan, "Forward Thinking."

See also

• Autorack
  Autorack
  An autorack, also known as an auto carrier, is a specialized piece of railroad rolling stock used to transport automobiles and light trucks, generally from factories to automotive distributors...
  
  
• List of rolling stock manufacturers
• TOFC
  Rail terminology
  Rail terminology is a form of technical terminology. The difference between the American term railroad and the international term railway is the most obvious difference in rail terminology...
  
   ("Trailer On Flat Car")
• Railbox Company
• Railgon Company
  Railgon Company
  The Railgon Company owned railroad gondola cars available for use by multiple railroads by placing the cars in a cooperative pool.Due to routing arrangements and track usage agreements, gondola cars and other rolling stock are often used to transport goods on more than one railroad before reaching...