| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Freight car provider |
| Founded | December 1955 |
| Headquarters | Chicago, United States |
| Area served | North America |
| Key people | Thomas F. Wells, President and CEO |
| Website | http://www.ttx.com |
TTX Company is a private company that owns a large fleet of freight cars and provides them to stockholding railroads. It also provides freightcar management services (information and accounting). TTX is the largest railroad car provider in the United States.[1]
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TTX was originally founded in 1955 by the Pennsylvania Railroad (predeccessor to Conrail), the Norfolk and Western Railway (predecessor to Norfolk Southern), and Rail-Trailer Corporation. 6,000 Pennsylvania Railroad employees entered possible names in a drawing for the new company, and the name "Trailer Train" won. Trailer Train's original goals were to standardize TOFC railcar practices, foster the growth of piggyback transportation, provide its members with the best available equipment at the lowest cost, and keep its members abreast of new developments. In 1991, the company changed its company name from Trailer Train to TTX.
The TTX fleet consists of over 200,000 flatcars, double-stack cars, autoracks, boxcars, and gondolas.[1] TTX owns a large number of reporting marks, reflecting the wide variety of cars that it owns.
The following companies own stock in TTX.
Between 1991 and 2008, the company used a yellow and black logo.
In March 2008, the company released a new logo, colored Tuscan red in honor of one of the founding railroads, the Pennsylvania Railroad. The logo also contains the company's new slogan, "Forward Thinking."[1]