Equipment Pools
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ACACSO – New Orleans, LA
May 11, 2012
Lynn Brown
LB Rail Consultant, Inc.
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What is a POOL?
How will cars be handled
◦ Cars not in a Pool
◦ Cars in a Pool
Car Service Rule 16
Different types of POOLS
◦ Pool Codes
◦ Who establishes and maintains a POOL
◦ How is a pool established and maintained
Is this important?
Car hire and Pools
Specific Pools
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POOL – A grouping of resources for the common
advantage of the participants
The American Heritage College Dictionary
Railroad “POOL”
◦ A group of cars having the same characteristics, grouped
for the benefit of a specific group or commodity
Specific customers
Specific locations
Specific loading requirements
By customer and/or locations
By specific commodity
Specific requirements
Contaminated Cars; Recall or equipment
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Benefits of having a POOL
◦ For the Customer
Helps maintain an even flow of equipment needed by
the customer
Maintains specific and required equipment for the
customer’s needs
◦ For the Railroad
Maintains equipment for the specific area or
commodity
Utilization of equipment is maintained for specific
loadings
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Code of Car Service Rules
◦ Rule 1 – Loading of Empty Cars
Loaded without regard of route or destination
Unless covered by a Car Service order or directive
◦ Rule 2 – Empty Foreign Cars Not Needed for Loading
Delivered to the home road
Forwarded to the road from which originally received under
load
Returned to the delivering road
Stored
How does this affect pool cars if information is
not maintained
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Better utilization of equipment maintained in a
pool
Return of equipment is defined by the pool
information
Code of Car Service Rules – Rule 16
◦ Assessment Orders – Association of American Railroads
CSD 145 and CSD 435
Authority for assigned cars and movement of said cars
Assignment of equipment to a specific customer or National
pool(s)
◦ Procedures of Assignment
◦ Handling of Empty Assigned Cars
◦ Designated Pool Reporter
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Pool Types or Pool Codes
◦ C – Equipment assigned to a specific shipper at a
specific location
◦ G – Contaminated cars
◦ J – Equipment assigned to a agent
◦ N – Similar to the “C” Pool, except, the equipment is
not assigned to a specific shipper or loading point
(National Pools)
◦ O – Equipment assigned to Recall pools
◦ P – Pool comprised of equipment assigned to
accommodate a specific commodity
◦ T – Pool comprised of equipment assigned to an
agent
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Respective railroad carrier (or leasing company)
◦ Carrier/owner that is the destination of the equipment
Either the specific customer and location
The location of the specific loading requirements
Industry representatives
◦ National pools
Railinc
Trailer Train Corporation
Railinc maintains the file for pools
◦ Respective carriers and industry representatives
maintains their respective pools
Updates, additions, deletion of cars, add/delete pools
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UMLER – Car Management section
Equipment Management Information System User Guide
◦ Create Pool Header
Pool ID
Valid seven-digit Pool ID
Position 1-3 – Pool Operator’s AAR Accounting Code
Railway Accounting Rules – Rule 260
Position 4-7 – Assigned by Pool Operator
Description
General description of the Pool
Loading Location
Actual shipper loading point or railroad holding point
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State/Province
Indicates the state or province where the pool is located
Operator 1 (up to 4 Operators)
Mark of the actual operator
Pool Maintenance Code
Pool Type
Type of railroad pool assignment
Pool is established
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Pool Identifier
◦ Position 1-3 of the Pool ID
Pool Code – Railroad pools - C, J, P, T, & G
Prefix of 001 through 997
Pool Operator’s AAR Accounting Code Railway Accounting
Rules – Rule 260
Pool Code – Joint Pools – C, G, P, T
Prefix of 998
Pool Code – National Pools – N
Prefix of 999
Managed by Railinc
9990001 thru 9990011; 9990700 thru 9999999
Managed by Trailer Train Corporation
9990012 thru 9990699
Heavy duty cars, Reload, and Box Cars
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Pool Header is established – next step
◦ Add the equipment to the pool
Maintenance of the Pool
◦ Operator can add/delete equipment
◦ Operator car delete the pool (pool header)
All equipment must be deleted from the pool
Operators
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Railroads
Leasing Company
Industry (Railinc)
Trailer Train Corporation
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Source: Railinc, Equipment
Management Information System
User Guide
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Source: Railinc, Equipment
Management Information System
User Guide
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Pool Codes
◦ Determining the correct pool code
Based on the code, equipment will be handled
differently for empty return, car hire considerations
Maintenance of Pools
◦ Maintaining the cars within the pool
Assigned cars may not be handled correctly for empty
return
Assigned cars not updated to the pool
Unassigned cars not removed from the pool
Car Hire considerations
Reclaims
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Car Payments to the Car Owner
◦ Full payment of car hire is due to the car owner
under the applicable rules of the Code of Car Hire
Rules
Reclaims
◦ Code of Car Hire Rules – Rule 22
Item B – Car Service Rule 16 – Assigned Cars
Assigned to a specific shipper or National customer pool
Date and Time of arrival at loading point to date and hour
of placement for loading
Held in excess of 24 hours at a holding point short of the
loading point
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When can a carrier reclaim on a car within a
pool
◦ Determined by the Pool Type or Code
Code “C” – assigned to a specific customer at a specific
location
Carrier that is the destination for the specific
customer/location can reclaim against the owner of
equipment not owned by said carrier
Code “N” – assigned to a National Pool
Only certain National Pool cars can be reclaimed
National pool cars maintained by Trailer Train Corporation
normally can not be reclaimed
National pool cars maintained by Railinc normally can be
reclaimed
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North American Boxcar Pool (NABP)
◦ Box cars pooled by several carriers
◦ Can not be reclaimed under agreement by the
industry
◦ Maintained by Railinc
Multi-level Pooling Executive Committee
(MPEC)
◦ Multi-level cars (automobile carriers)
◦ Can be reclaimed under Rule 22
◦ Maintained by TTX
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Questions
Lynn Brown
LB Rail Consultant, Inc.
801-631-8030
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