Maintenance
Our maintenance operations are known for their safety, integrity, and quality.
With over 800 employees dispersed throughout 11 locations in North America, we routinely perform maintenance events on more than 13,000 cars per year through our fixed network, mobile repair units (MRUs) and customer sites.
Our major repair facilities provide a full range of services that adhere to the highest standards of quality, performance, and efficiency through our top-notch team of maintenance experts.
Our Maintenance Offerings
For our full-service lease customers, we put the emphasis on full-service.
Our dedicated maintenance network can deliver everything from routine maintenance to car modifications and rebuilds. Maintenance service capabilities include mechanical repairs, interior cleaning, interior/exterior blasting, interior/exterior coatings, valve maintenance and regulatory compliance, and more.
We not only manage the maintenance activity on our full-service leased railcars and locomotives, including performing compliance maintenance and oversight, but we also support customers who need help with fleet sizing, car selection, mileage accounting, and engineering design work.
We are committed to providing quality railcar maintenance while maximizing in-service time for customers.
Our goal is to meet or exceed promised completion dates on every railcar.
Our Account Solutions group delivers comprehensive resources and industry expertise to every full-service lease.
OUR ENGINEERING EXPERTISE
GATX Rail North America maintenance offerings go beyond the work done at our repair facilities.
We have a dedicated engineering team that includes experienced mechanical, structural, and chemical engineers who assist customers with selecting solutions to meet their needs.
Examples of engineering support include:
Reliability analysis
To monitor railcar performance and recommend proactive maintenance intervals to help maximize time in service and minimize bad-order events and other service disruptions
Inspection plans
To capture railcar performance data, which can assist in determining the right service at the right time, and to address industry rules and federal regulations
Car design / specification
To equip every railcar with the customers’ preferred car configuration and components, striving to maximize railcar performance and meet our customers’ requirements
Chemical engineering
To support customers with determining commodity compatibility and the appropriate car types and coatings
Design engineering
To assist with modification of cars to suit our customers’ needs
Facilities engineering and continuous improvement
To oversee our facilities and to continually strive for best-in-class maintenance operations
INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS
In addition to our maintenance network and engineering expertise, we also provide innovative solutions for your railcar and locomotive fleets:
Maintenance Locations
For customers with full-service leases, we have an extensive maintenance network that consists of the following:
