Railsolutions-llc

RailSolutions, Inc. (RailSolutions LLC) — A 50-year structured census and valuation series for North American railroad equipment: supply-and-demand trends segmented into 1975-2007, 2008-2010 and 2011-2017; two proprietary indices (the RS Railcar Market Index and the Railcar Rental Rate Index); equipment-ownership mix trends; economic-useful-life tables by asset; salvage and scrap-value series; and granular car-class value evaluations across 14 railcar sections (general service boxcars, five covered-hopper variants, mill/coil and high-side gondolas, coal open-top hoppers, center-bulkhead flatc…

Railsolutions-llc offers (Alternative, Price, Supply Chain, Reference) — 275+ pages of structured valuation content covering 14 railcar classes and 5 locomotive sections at model level, with supply/demand series spanning 1975 to 2017 across two proprietary indices, ownership trends, useful-life tables and salvage series; plus a separate historical database product whose extent is not published..

Railcar residual-value and lease-return modelling (the guide's core purpose); asset-backed securities and railcar-collateral lending marks; depreciation schedules and impairment testing for lessors and industrial fleets; fleet retirement-and-replacement optimisation using economic-useful-life tables; scrap-value floor modelling for steel-cycle analysis; second-hand railcar and locomotive transaction pricing; a 50-year physical-asset price panel for asset-pricing research and index construction; and training data for appraisal models that estimate equipment value from class, vintage and condition.

The data is with 52 years of history.

Coverage spans US, Other; Railtransportation, Financial Exchanges & Data; alternative, price, supply_chain, reference; equities, fixed_income, derivatives.