Freight people. We didn't forget you. We just needed a bigger spreadsheet.
Freight rail fleet, cost, service and safety data in one place
The Consist - Freight Rail Analytics Portal puts Class I railroad data from the railroads' own STB R-1 filings next to their 10-K financials, locomotive fleets, weekly EP 724 service metrics, freight car ownership and fleet counts for the Class Is, TTX and major lessors, tank car upgrades, fuel surcharges, the STB rail cost index, 600+ regional and short line railroads, freight flows to 2050, Canadian and cross-border traffic, FRA safety records and every grade crossing in the country, with a definition behind every number, on the same Consist account.
See this week's freight numbers free
A free Consist account includes a preview of every part of the portal: EP 724 service, 2050 flows, cross-border trains, tank cars and more.
Freight people. We didn't forget you. We just needed a bigger spreadsheet.
Locomotives and leasing
Every Class I files how many it bought, rebuilt and retired. Nobody reads it. We did.
Class I scoreboard, cost per unit-mile, miles per unit, retirements and overhauls, rebuild vs new. See whose fleet is getting old, who is rebuilding instead of buying, and the year the math flips.
Cars, track, signals and facilities spending
Railroads tell the government where the money goes. Down to the line item.
R-1 modules for freight cars, track and structures, signals and communications, labor, and facilities and equipment. Six railroads, six years, every number one click from the filing it came from.
Class I financials side by side
Stop rebuilding the same comp table every quarter.
Income statement, balance sheet, cash flow and operating ratio on a GAAP basis, all six Class Is side by side, with investor reporting linked to every annual filing.
Grade crossings and safety
3,250 public crossings carry passenger trains and have no gates. 500 have already had a collision.
Every grade crossing in the FRA inventory on a map, with gates, flashers, trains per day, road traffic and every collision since 2010. If you sell crossing equipment, that's not a statistic. That's a call list.
Railroad safety rates
Know where the problems are before the agency issues the RFP to fix them.
Train accident and crossing collision rates per million train-miles for every Class I, regional, short line and commuter railroad, and why they happened: track, equipment, human factors and signals.
Regional and short line railroads
The other 600 freight railroads, in one table.
Every FRA Class II and III freight railroad: train-miles, crew hours, accidents, crossing collisions and crossings, grouped by holding company, with a drill-down for each railroad.
Fuel, surcharges and cost escalation
See how much of the fuel bill shippers paid back.
Every Class I's quarterly fuel cost, gallons and fuel surcharge revenue as filed with the STB, the AAR fuel price index, and the STB Rail Cost Adjustment Factor. Switch any cost in the portal to 2025 rail-cost dollars.
Service, flows and the border
Train speed and dwell every week, and where the tonnage is headed by 2050.
EP 724 weekly service metrics for every Class I since 2017, freight flows by commodity and state-to-state lane with forecasts to 2050, Canadian rail traffic, cross-border trains by port, and network density, bridges and terminals by owner.
Consist - Freight Rail Analytics Portal. Same login, on the freight plan or the all-rail plan. See also Consist for passenger rail suppliers and freight pricing.
Plans that include it
| Plan | Monthly |
|---|---|
| Freight Markets Analyst | $99 |
| US & Canada - Rail Expert | $249 |
| Investor | $299 |
Source: FRA Office of Railroad Safety and BTS NTAD; compiled by Consist. STB data from Form R-1 annual reports and EP 724 and EP 661 filings; BTS, Statistics Canada and AAR data as credited on each page. Data and methodology.