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| 04/14/2012 4:57pm |
How Many railcars are out there? |
Erik Edmonds |
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The Association of American Railroads (AAR) maintains industry statistics, including number of locomotives and cars. Scroll down about half way through this PDF document and you'll see in 2010, the number was 1,309,209 for US Railroads, excluding Canadian-owned railroads operating in the US and TTX. I'm sure the grand total number is more than 1.5 million freight cars in service
http://www.aar.org/~/media/aar/Industry%20Info/2012-02-09-AAR-Stats.ashx
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| 04/14/2012 8:46pm |
RE: How Many railcars are out there? |
Erik Edmonds |
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| 04/15/2012 6:36am |
RE: How Many railcars are out there? |
Stephen Brown |
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The Railinc website lists each quarter's Umler Equipment Index, which shows the total amount of equipment registered.
As of 31st March 2012 the total listed was 1,961,383.
This includes 41,180 locos, 25,041 end of train devices and 48.146 miscellaneous items.
Not all the remaining freight cars are necessarily in use, as the total in the index includes scrap, restricted and pre-registered units.
For further details use this link
https://www.railinc.com/rportal/web/guest/railinc_indexes
Stephen
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