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Encyclopedia > General American Transportation Corporation

General American Transportation Corporation or GATX (the company changed their name to their most common reporting mark) is a railway equipment leasing company. Unlike, for example, TTX which leases only rolling stock, or Motive Power International which primarily leases locomotives, GATX leases both. Tetrodotoxin (anhydrotetrodotoxin 4-epitetrodotoxin, tetrodonic acid, TTX) is a potent neurotoxin, which shuts down electrical signalling in nerves by binding to the pores of voltage-gated sodium channel proteins in nerve cell membranes. ...


GATX was founded in 1898. As of September 2005 GATX has about 168,000 cars in its fleet according to their corporate site.


GATX has the NYSE stock symbol GMT. New York Stock Exchange (June 2003) The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is one of the largest stock exchanges in the world. ... A stock symbol or ticker symbol is a shorthand code used to uniquely identify shares of a publicly-traded corporation on a particular stock market. ...


GATX has many reporting marks but the most well known one is (AAR reporting mark GATX), Categories: Organization stubs | Rail transport | Industry trade groups ... The following are reporting marks assigned by the Association of American Railroads (AAR) to rail carriers operating in North America and the companies (railroads and rail equipment owners/operators) to which they were assigned. ...


External References

Book: Epstein, Ralph C. GATX: A History of the General American Transportation Corporation, 1898–1948. 1948.


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Unsecured Notes by Maturity (59 words)
Unsecured Notes by Maturity: Public debt has been issued by GATX Capital Corporation, General American Railcar, General American Transportation Corporation and GATX Rail Corporation.
The obligations of these entities are the obligations of GATX Financial Corporation (see GATX Corporate Structure for organizational detail).
Any new debt issues are expected to be made by GATX Financial Corporation or GATX Corporation.
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