General American Transportation Corporation
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General American Transportation Corporation or GATX (the company changed their name to their most common reporting mark) is a railway equipment leasing company. Unlike, for example, TTX which leases only rolling stock, or Motive Power International which primarily leases locomotives, GATX leases both.
GATX was founded in 1898. As of September 2005 GATX has about 168,000 cars in its fleet according to their corporate site.
GATX has the NYSE stock symbol GMT.
GATX has many reporting marks, but the most well known is AAR reporting mark GATX.
Refrigerator car line
General American's Chicago, Illinois-based refrigerator car line was operated by the General American Car Company. Its predecessor was the Atlantic Seaboard Despatch.General American Transportation Corporation, 1930–1970:
| '''1930 | '''1940 | '''1950 | '''1960 | '''1970 |
| 700 | 0 | 6,122 | 3,770 | 1,438 |
Source: The Great Yellow Fleet, p. 16.
References
- Epstein, Ralph C. (1948). GATX: A History of the General American Transportation Corporation, 1898–1948.
- White, John W. (1986). The Great Yellow Fleet. Golden West Books, San Marino, CA. ISBN 0-87095-091-6.
- White, Jr., John H. (1993). The American Railroad Freight Car. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland. ISBN 0-8018-5236-6.
External links
- [GATX] official website
- [Chicago History] — a thumbnail history.
| Major Private Refrigerator Car Lines of the United States | |
| American Refrigerator Transit Company>American Refrigerator Transit Co. · Armour Refrigerator Line · Burlington Refrigerator Express · Fruit Growers Express · General American Transportation Corporation · Hormel and Co. · Merchants Despatch · North Western Refrigerator Line · Pacific Fruit Express · Railway Express Agency · Santa Fe Refrigerator Despatch · St. Louis Refrigerator Car Co. · Swift Refrigerator Line · Tropicana Products · Union Refrigerator Transit Line · Western Fruit Express · Western Refrigerator Line | |
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