General American Transportation Corporation
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GATX Corporation (NYSE: GMT) is a holding company based in Chicago, Illinois. Founded as the General American Transportation Corporation in 1898, it leases transportation equipment through its primary subsidiary, GATX Financial Corporation, which in turn is known foremost for its GATX Rail subsidiary, a leading lessor of railway equipment.
Unlike, for example, TTX which leases only rolling stock, or Motive Power International which primarily leases locomotives, GATX Rail leases both. As of September 2005, it has about 168,000 cars in its fleet according to their corporate site.
GATX has many reporting marks, but the most widely known is AAR reporting mark GATX.
[edit] 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 Roster, 1930–1970:
1930 | 1940 | 1950 | 1960 | 1970 |
700 | — | 6,122 | 3,770 | 1,438 |
Source: The Great Yellow Fleet, p. 16.
[edit] 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.
[edit] External links
- GATX official website
- GATX Rail official website
- Chicago History — a thumbnail history.
Major Private Refrigerator Car Lines of the United States | |
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 |