Ultimately I hope to provide and maintain fairly detailed freight car rosters for all Canadian railways. For more on how to read the tables, see How to read the tables
Increasingly, railway cars are being owned by private companies -- either shippers acquiring their own cars, or lease companies supplying cars to shippers. Defining a Canadian private car can be rather difficult, especially in more recent years, as owners are known to move across the border from time to time. My definition is that the owner must:
There are some large U.S. leasing companies which have acquired cars from Canadian operations, or which have supplied cars to Canadian lessors under unique reporting marks and I have tried to include these cars as well.