Overview
GATX Corporation is a transportation-asset leasing and services company whose core business is leasing railcars, typically with maintenance and related services. Its other businesses include aircraft spare-engine leasing through GATX Engine Leasing and joint ventures, and tank-container leasing through Trifleet. Its rail operations extend across North America, Europe and India.[1][2][3][4]
GATX states its mission is to provide innovative service that helps customers transport goods safely and sustainably, while supporting employee and community well-being.[5] The company reported FY2025 revenue of $1.740 billion and a third-party profile reported 2,371 employees as of December 31, 2025.[6][7] [1][2][3][4][6][5][7]
Products & services
GATX leases railcars across North America, Europe and India, including general-service, high-pressure and specialty tank cars; covered hoppers; open-top cars; boxcars; and flatcars/intermodal cars. These cars carry commodities such as petroleum products, LPG, chemicals, grain, fertilizer, metals, food and packaged goods [8][9][10]. Product specifications include high-pressure tank cars of 17,000–33,500 gallons rated up to 600 psi; small-capacity general-service tank cars of 13,500–19,000 gallons; and large-capacity cars of 25,500–31,800 gallons, including a 30,300-gallon DOT117J design [11][12][13]. Medium-cube covered hoppers are listed at 4,275–6,500 cubic feet, with 263,000- or 286,000-pound gross rail-load options [14].
Other leased equipment includes aircraft spare engines and tank containers. GATX’s engine-leasing operations lease spare engines to airlines and Rolls-Royce, including for engine-maintenance programs, and provide engine capacity under agreements [15][16]. Through Trifleet, GATX leases and manages tank containers for chemical, industrial-gas, energy, food, cryogenic and pharmaceutical applications; related services include sourcing, remarketing, and arranging container inspection and maintenance [17].
Railcar leasing is offered on full-service or net terms. Full-service leases bundle maintenance, insurance and ad valorem taxes; GATX also provides railcar inspections, mechanical repairs, cleaning, coatings, valve maintenance, regulatory-compliance work, modifications and rebuilds [18][2][4][19][20]. For the six months ended June 30, 2026, reported segment revenue was $871.7 million for Rail North America, $210.8 million for Rail International, $61.0 million for Engine Leasing and $20.3 million for Other—approximately 74.9%, 18.1%, 5.2% and 1.7% of total revenue, respectively, based on reported segment revenue [21]. These are segment, not individual product-type, proportions. [8][9][15][16][17][18][2][4][19][21][21][21][21][21][10][11][12][13][14][20]
Geographic presence
GATX’s FY2025 reporting describes its rail operations across North America—principally the United States, Canada and Mexico—and internationally through GATX Rail Europe and Rail India. Rail North America generated $1,186.4 million, approximately 68.2% of FY2025 consolidated revenue; Rail International generated $387.8 million, approximately 22.3%. These are segment-revenue shares, not a country-by-country allocation of sales, which the report does not provide.[2][4][22] [2][4][22][22][22]
Business segments
For FY2025, GATX reported three primary business segments—Rail North America, Rail International and Engine Leasing—and reported Trifleet within “Other.” The approximate shares of total segment-table revenue were 68.2%, 22.3%, 7.2% and 2.4%, respectively; percentages are calculated from the reported segment revenues and rounded to one decimal.[23][22] [23][22][22][22][22][22]
Company history
GATX traces its origins to 1898, when Max Epstein launched Atlantic Seaboard Dispatch in Chicago with 48 used railcars, pioneering railcar leasing. The business evolved through German-American Car Company into General American Transportation Corporation; the company identifies 1902 as its first incorporation and 1916 as the year the parent company was incorporated in New York. GATX listed its shares on the New York Stock Exchange in 1920 and expanded rail investment into Canada in 1936.[24][25]
The company adopted the name GATX Corporation in 1975 and exited railcar manufacturing in 1984, marking a shift toward transportation-asset leasing. From the 1990s, it expanded internationally: it entered Mexico in 1993 and European railcar leasing in 1997, acquired Poland’s DEC business in 2001, and took full ownership of KVG in 2002. In 2006, KVG’s Vienna and Hamburg operations and DEC were combined to form GATX Rail Europe.[24][26][27]
GATX sold its aircraft-leasing joint-venture interests in a transaction that closed in 2007. In 2014, it acquired more than 18,500 North American railcars from GE Capital Rail Services, and in 2020 it completed the sale of American Steamship Company. In 2021, it formed GATX Engine Leasing. Most recently, a GATX–Brookfield joint venture completed its acquisition of approximately 101,000 Wells Fargo railcars on January 1, 2026.[28][29][30][31][32] [24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32]
Sources
- GATX CORP — Full financial report (2025 Y)
- www.gatx.com[5]
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- GATX CORP — Full financial report (2026 Q 2)[18][21]
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