by jstolberg
“Everybody is asking for cars right now,” Dale Davies, chief financial officer at American Railcar, said in a telephone interview from his Saint Charles, Missouri, office. “Everybody is trying to ramp their capacities up as much as they can. We’re pretty much full for 2012.”http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-1 ... eight.html
Rail car manufacturing backlog
Trinity Industries, 27,885
Greenbriar Cos., 15,400
American Railcar Industries, 7,100
FreightCar America, 6,311
Coupled end-to-end that makes over 500 miles of new rolling stock.