Who leased, returned or reassigned railcars this week, straight from the public lease filings at the Surface Transportation Board. Week ending ….
Filings recorded …. Car counts are floors: only filings that state a count are summed.
Company names as filed, car counts, marks, and a link to each memorandum. Unlock with a work email; we ask four questions so the weekly brief is useful to you.
Source: STB Section of Recordations index (49 U.S.C. 11301), pulled every Monday. This page states facts from filings and links to each one; it does not characterise any company. Rent and term are not in the filings; for lease-rate ranges see the railcar lease rates tracker.
The filings tell you who is moving. The Railcar Lease Renewal Desk benchmarks a renewal before you sign, places idle cars on sublease, and sources cars from lessors, dealers and private fleets.
Talk to the desk →From the Surface Transportation Board's Section of Recordations. Under 49 U.S.C. 11301, railcar leases, subleases, assignments and security agreements are recorded with the STB and the index is public. Each entry names the parties and the equipment, and links to the filed memorandum. This page aggregates that index every Monday.
No. A memorandum of lease names the lessor, the lessee and the cars, but rent and term are almost never stated. For current lease-rate ranges see our railcar lease rates tracker; for a renewal benchmark, use the Railcar Lease Renewal Desk.
Most financed and large-lessor leases are, because recording perfects the lessor's or lender's interest. Short subleases and some direct deals are not. Treat the counts as a floor, and note that car counts are summed only where the filing states a number.
