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TTX Company
TTX Company is a
private company that owns a significant fleet of freight cars and
provides them into stockholding railway. It too provides freight car
management services ( data and accounting ). TTX is that the largest
railroad car provider within US.
TTX Company was originally
founded in 1955 via the Pennsylvania Railroad (predecessor to actually
Conrail), The Norfolk And Western Railway (predecessor to actually
Norfolk Southern Railway), and Rail-Trailer Corporation. 6,000
Pennsylvania Railroad staff entered potential names within the drawing
for our new company, and therefore the name "Trailer Train" won. Trailer
Trains original goals were to actually standardize TOFC railcar
practices, foster the growth of transportation, give its members in the
best accessible equipment for the lowest cost, go away with its members
abreast of cutting edge developments. in 1991, the corporate modified
its company name from Trailer Train to actually TTX.
The TTX fleet consists of
over 200,000 flatcars, double-stack cars, autoracks, boxcars, and
gondolas. TTX owns a big variety of reporting marks, reflecting the wide
kind of cars so it owns.