The authoritative data utility for North American freight rail

The authoritative data utility for North American freight rail: a reporting-mark and equipment-registration registry (Umler) covering the entire car fleet including private railcars, trailers and containers; Automatic Equipment Identification (AEI) driven movement and interchange events under AAR Interchange Rule 88; the TRAIN/EDI event repository; interline financial and rate traffic through the Interline Settlement System (ISS), Rate EDI Network (REN) and Interline Service Management (ISM); and specialized exchange datasets — Car Repair Billing Data Exchange (CRBDX) consolidating repair charges and materials into a single file, Locomotive Repair Billing (LRB) with standardized pricing and invoicing, and Damaged and Defective Car Tracking (DDCT) recording Rule 107/1/108 defect and bad-order (SPLC) events. In short, the industry's canonical car-level equipment, movement, repair-cost and settlement record set.

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Industry: Rail TransportationFinancial Exchanges & Data
Instruments: equitiescommodities
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Type: not stated
Format: Structured EDI interchange and mainframe-derived feeds in fixed industry-standard formats under AAR Railway Accounting Rules, plus web portals for DDCT, LRB and IRF; machine-readable by design and delivered under formal participation agreements rather than open download
Volume: est. extremely large and canonical: the registered North American freight car fleet is roughly 2 million units plus intermodal trailers and containers, each carrying registration, movement, defect and repair event histories; AEI readers generate tens of millions of car-position events daily industry-wide, and interline settlement plus repair billing generate hundreds of millions of charge records per year. As the consolidated national repository, archive depth and volume dwarf any single-carrier dataset — petabyte-scale in total, with the structured registries and event repositories as the licensable core.
Users: N/A for consumers — this is a participation-based industry utility, not a registered-user product. est. 700-900 participating organizations (Class I and short-line railroads, private car owners, intermodal operators, repair shops and industry vendors that are required to, or elect to, participate in interchange, registration and settlement), consistent with the full North American rail participant set
History: 40 years
Update frequency: not stated
Growth: Active and institutionally stable — the guide carries a May 2025 update date and Railinc operates as the permanent AAR-owned data utility; the trajectory is incremental modernization (developer-facing APIs, asset-tracking developer docs, RailSight messaging) rather than growth-or-decline dynamics
Launched: est. 1990s for the modern Railinc operating entity (formed by the AAR to consolidate industry data services, commonly dated to 1997), while the registries and EDI standards it operates inherit decades of prior AAR interline and reporting-mark practice that predates the company itself
Delivery: not stated
Entity mapping: not stated
Sample: not stated
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