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The Greenbrier Companies is an American publicly traded transportation manufacturing corporation based in Lake Oswego, Oregon, United States.Greenbrier specializes in transportation services, notably freight railcar manufacturing, railcar refurbishment and railcar leasing/management services.
An axlebox, also known as a journal box in North America, is the mechanical subassembly on each end of the axles under a railway wagon, coach or locomotive; it contains bearings and thus transfers the wagon, coach or locomotive weight to the wheels and rails; the bearing design is typically oil-bathed plain bearings on older rolling stock, or roller bearings on newer rolling stock.
In the late 2000s, due to a drop in rail car leasing due to the general economic recession initiated by the 2000s financial crisis GE Railcar attempted to alter the terms on a $1.2 billion contract (2007) for the acquisition of over 11000 rail cars from The Greenbrier Companies. The GE contract represented 84% of Greenbrier's ongoing railcar ...
So far in this calendar year, Greenbrier has received orders for 5,400 railcar units for a total value of roughly $575 million. The orders are for a variety of railcar types, including tank cars ...
The Greenbrier Companies (NYSE: GBX) reported first-quarter fiscal 2013 diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.35 on revenue of $415 million. In the same period a year ago, the railcar builder ...
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1988: Spin-off company American Railcar Industries (ARI) is founded. [16] 1997: ACF reaches a leasing agreement with GE Capital Railcar for 35,000 of its 46,000 railcars, mostly on 16-year leases with optional purchase agreements. [17] [18] 2003: ACF Industries LLC became a successor to ACF Industries, Incorporated on May 1, 2003. [4]
Greenbrier is profiting from a slowdown in rail velocity. The company today released the order tally for its just-ended Q2, saying that it had received new orders for 5,600 railcars for a total ...