CHAPTER 10 CAR OWNERSHIP AND DISTRIBUTION Private Car
CHAPTER 10 CAR OWNERSHIP AND DISTRIBUTION
Private Car Ownership • Railroads encourage utilities to own their own cars - In exchange, get reduced freight rates • Reduces railroads’ new car investments and maintenance costs • Car markings end in “X”
Car Rental Systems • Bilateral Agreements - Use of another railroad’s cars - Terms and rate are private - Rail Inc (subsidy of AAR) keeps track of all “interchanges” and tracks balances • Per Diem - Actually per hour - How bilateral agreements are charged https: //www. railinc. com/rportal/web/guest/home
Rates • Need to be high enough to have return to owner • Low enough to encourage the railroad to keep it long enough to find a return load -Will improve overall car use • Used to be regulated by ICC http: //www. nuwireinvestor. com/blogs/investorcentric/uploaded_images/dollar-bill-question-mark-734386. jpg
Service and Distribution Rules • Objectives 1. Ensure well-timed movement of empties 2. Reduce empty car mileage • Empty Return • Finding an Empty • Car Tracing
Railbox & Railgon http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/File: Boxcar_railbox. jpg • TTX Corp. - Owned by major railroads - Own standardized plain cars for use by railroads - Lower rates • Railbox (RBOX) : plain box cars • Railgon (GONX) : plain gondolas
Assigned Service Cars • Cover specific products between specific shippers & consignees • Car ownership is often shared by different RR’s • Cars almost always return empty
https: //www. railinc. com/rportal/web/guest/umleremis • Universal Machine Language Equipment Register • Date file updated daily • Shows availability for all cars • Maintained by Rail Inc
• TRAIN II - Telerail Automated Information Network - Keeps location of every freight car - Covers all railroad interchanges in the US and Canada • SAM - Shipper Assist Message - Lets shippers receive data from cars carrying their shipments
Car Route Optimization • AAR continuously does studies to improve car use strategies • Database the waybills of 1% of all trains - Over 200, 00 per year • Generate computer programs to evaluate the effect of car service http: //4 rail. net/4 rmedia/nam/usa_gatx_ca_bakersfield_tankcar. LPG_gatx 57162__2008_XL. jpg
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