Transcript Equipment Pools

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
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Different types of POOLS
◦ Pool Codes
◦ Who establishes and maintains a POOL
◦ How is a pool established and maintained
 Is this important?
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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
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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
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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
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Industry representatives
◦ National pools
 Railinc
 Trailer Train Corporation
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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
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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
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Maintenance of the Pool
◦ Operator can add/delete equipment
◦ Operator car delete the pool (pool header)
 All equipment must be deleted from the pool
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Lynn Brown
LB Rail Consultant, Inc.
801-631-8030
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