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Rail wheels, axles and bearings: The innovation continues

Tank car boom masks dearth of orders for other rail cars — analysis by Toby Kolstad

Guest Comment: On the right (connected) track with the Industrial Internet

Sustainability: Freight car builders explore ways to make operations more environmentally friendly

New rail-car rule in Canada eyes emerging technologies

Oil boom will sustain the economy, rail-car leasing sector in 2013 - by Toby Kolstad

Progressive Railroading's 2013 Finance & Leasing Guide - Preface

Banks - Rail Finance & Leasing Guide 2013

Equipment Providers/Equipment Management Services - Rail Finance & Leasing Guide 2013

Finance Companies - Rail Finance & Leasing Guide 2013

Investment Banks - Rail Finance & Leasing Guide 2013

Lessors - Rail Finance & Leasing Guide 2013

Rail finance and leasing outlook: What are the key issues in 2013?

Rail finance and leasing outlook: What has been the biggest change during the past 10 years? What will the next big change be?

Rail-car deliveries to drop to 47,000 in 2013 — by Toby Kolstad

U.S. locomotive order activity has slowed, but demand for GenSets is up for some motive power manufacturers

Rail outlook 2013; reading the rail-car order barometer (Pat Foran, Context, December 2012)

Lift systems help railroads service and repair assets

Caltrain electrification project ready to roll

Rail car market: The outlook for rail cars and rail traffic remains uncertain — by Toby Kolstad

Transit agencies share rail-car and locomotive purchase plans: Progressive Railroading's Fleet Stats 2012

Rail car and locomotive data: Progressive Railroading's Fleet Stats 2012

Rail technology development at Union Pacific

Rail car market: The containerization of domestic intermodal is the next game changer for the railroad and rail-car industries — by Toby Kolstad

Passenger rail expansion in Dallas-Fort Worth; Tank cars are still in demand; American Association of Railroad Superintendents' Frank Richter scholarship applications due July 1 — by Pat Foran

Light-rail update: San Diego Metropolitan Transit System's trolley renewal project:

Railroading in the Laboratory: Recapping TTCI's 17th Annual AAR Research Review

For some railroads, real-time locomotive health monitoring is the next logical step

Capital ideas: Progressive Railroading's 2012 Finance & Leasing Guide

Rail car leasing: 'Same old, same old' as the new paradigm — by Toby Kolstad

For the rail finance and leasing sector, a promising year ahead

As diesel costs rise, railroads turn to technology, training and procurement strategies to reduce fuel consumption

Rail-car delivery forecast for 2012 from Rail Theory Forecasts' Toby Kolstad

Analyzing rail-car values in the era of longer service life - by Toby Kolstad

Railroad mechanical department execs sharpen their multi-tasking skills

Fleet Stats 2011: Freight car, locomotive and passenger rail car data

Inside the complexities of rail-car fleet renewal — by Toby Kolstad

Locomotives: Platforms to accommodate 125 mph operations in the U.S.

Vibration control technology

Rail finance and leasing: Seeking signs of sustenance, post recession

Rail car leasing: For most rail-car lessors, happier days are here again (by Toby Kolstad)

What are the key issues facing the rail finance/leasing sector in 2011?

Today's diesel engine technology

Freight Locomotive Market Update

Rail-Car Deliveries in 2011

Rail industry data and trends from Progressive Railroading November 2010

Railroads & car-tracking technology

The rail car market — by Toby Kolstad (September 2010)

Fleet Stats 2010: Freight car, locomotive and passenger rail car data

Rail-car market: What's in store on the storage and surplus fronts - by Toby Kolstad

Class Is employ fuel-saving practices that promise stingier diesel usage

Industry Trends from Progressive Railroading March 2010

Rail finance and leasing: Limping toward a lingering sense that there's light at the end of the tunnel

Toby Kolstad: Who'll fund the next rail-car investment wave?

Cost constraints, economic conditions to delay widespread electronically controlled pneumatic brake implementation

Rail Outlook: 2010 (Table of Contents)

Rail Cars: 15,000 cars in 2010

Freight-car repair business will ramp up when the economy does, repair-shop execs say

Guest Comment: The Rail Resurgence - An American Growth Engine, by EMD's John Hamilton

Onboard monitoring technology continues to provide railroads with better ways to monitor and track cars and locomotives

Builders of passenger-rail locomotives, EMUs and DMUs talk technology, global market trends

Touchstones, Guidance and Guesswork in Troubled Times

Locomotive Manufacturers Offer Information on their Fuel-Saving Models

It might take two years for car demand to strengthen, Kolstad says

New UMLER system will enable car owners to communicate more clearly and quickly, Railinc says

Fleet Stats '09
CONTENTS

The risk of not properly managing risk when recession rules — By Toby Kolstad

With 5,000 locomotives in storage, Class Is won’t be placing power orders any time soon

Series of seminars in Chicago last month shed light on the wheel/rail interface

Suppliers of rail-car movers share their latest equipment offerings

How are railroads faring when it comes to taking a more holistic approach to addressing wheel/rail issues?

Mechanical Equipment for the Eco-Minded

Resignation and Recovery in the Rhetorical World of Rail Finance

Toby Kolstad: Inauspicious Beginnings, Uncertain Endings & the Prospects for a New Lease on Lease Life

Freight-Car Builders Develop atypical cars for not-so-typical cargo

Higher Fuel Costs, Tighter Emission Standards Prompt Railroads to Update Decades Old Locomotives

Toby Kolstad: How Low Can Rail-Car Deliveries Go in ’09? Try 31,500

Intermodal Car Orders to Decline

Technology Update: Tread-Conditioning Brake Shoes

North American Locomotive Orders May Be Down, but Interest in 'Green Power' is Up

Toby Kolstad: Why it’s a good time to sell — or buy — rail-car fleets

DART rolls out new ‘super’ light-rail vehicles

Top 13 Technological advances since 1958

Industry Trends (from Progressive Railroading/June 2008)

Cross-disciplinary cross-talk ruled at Wheel/Rail Interaction '08

2008 Fleet Stats
CONTENTS

Fleet Stats 2008: Taking some sting out of ‘cyclical’

It's the same old, cyclical song:
Car surpluses to plague builders, lessors at least through '09

Class Is will purchase or lease 690 locomotives in 2008

Transit agencies continue to expand, modernize fleets

BNSF: Distributed-power train equipped with ECP brakes makes maiden run

Iowa Interstate powers up

AAR Research Review — A technological link

EPA regulation — Airing it out

‘Sweeping’ change in haz-mat regulation

The power of a public entity

Technology providers offer systems to help railroads, shippers and fleet owners keep closer tabs on key assets

Class Is on fuel management: Good to the last drop

Transit agencies: Stocking up on rolling stock

A BNSF first: ECP-equipped coal train in revenue service

Transit agencies show passengers how to 'enjoy the ride'

Hopper cars — Hardly a hopping market

Market power

Stop-gap measures

Intermodal car rebound on order

Of global trade and garbage

Seeking qualified applicants

No break for power brokers

Class Is tap technology to ensure the right car is on the right train well before the train-building stage

Rail shipper's lawsuit alleging U.S. Class Is conspired to fix fuel surcharge rates adds to ongoing shipper/railroad surcharge dispute

Fleet Stats '07

Fleet management: From working concept to oxymoron to...? (by Toby Kolstad)

Hundreds of new locomotives on the way to Class Is in 2007

Passenger-car builders keep busy despite decline in mega-orders (Fleet Stats 2007)

Context by Pat Foran (April 2007)

Waiving the way to ECP implementation

Going green: Freight-rail environmental efforts gather steam

Railroads think strategically on the fuel front

Industry News (February 2007)

Expanding their options: Battery and solar system suppliers upgrade, expand product lines

Lease or buy? For fleet managers, the answer might be less than obvious

Tom Martin doesn't have time for boat rides or golf games — not when there's another locomotive engine part to invent

No breather in 2007 for tank-car builders

Chugging along

Data in, inefficiencies out

Wheel and bearing suppliers pump up production while developing longer-lasting products

UP's Bonnie Leake: Hitting The Brakes

February 2004 Issue Summary