The Greenbrier Companies Inc

The Greenbrier Companies Inc. designs manufactures and markets railroad freight car equipment in North America Europe and South America. It operates through three segments: Manufacturing; Maintenance Services; and Leasing & Management Services. The Manufacturing segment offers conventional railcars such as covered hopper cars boxcars and center partition cars; tank cars; double-stack intermodal railcars; auto-max and multi-max products for the transportation of light vehicles; pressurized tank cars non-pressurized tank cars flat cars coil cars gondolas sliding wall cars intermodal cars hoppers and automobile transporter cars; and marine vessels. The Maintenance Services segment provides wheel services including reconditioning of wheels and axles new axle machining and finishing and downsizing; operates a railcar repair refurbishment and maintenance network; and reconditions and manufactures railcar cushioning units couplers yokes side frames bolsters and various other parts as well as produces roofs doors and associated parts for boxcars. The Leasing & Management Services segment offers operating leases and per diem leases for a fleet of approximately 12200 railcars; and management services comprising railcar maintenance management railcar accounting services fleet management and logistics administration and railcar re-marketing. This segment provides management services to a fleet of approximately 408000 railcars for railroads shippers carriers institutional investors and other leasing and transportation companies. It serves railroads leasing companies financial institutions shippers carriers and transportation companies. The company was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Lake Oswego Oregon.