First Look: ‘Eco-Green’ Boxcar for BNSF

“GATX is sending us a boxcar that’s green—literally. The car will be in use across our network. Keep an eye out and maybe you’ll spot it!” BNSF wrote via LinkedIn earlier this month. (Photograph Courtesy of GATX via LinkedIn)

GATX has wrapped and released for delivery the first new 60-foot Plate F “eco-green” boxcar from a 1,500-boxcar deal signed earlier this year with and on lease to BNSF, the railcar lessor reported earlier this month via LinkedIn.

GATX said the boxcar, a 60-foot hi-cube outside-brace unit, shows “our gratitude to BNSF for our long-standing partnership,” and the design “represents both companies’ dedication to sustainability while emphasizing how shipping by rail helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”

According to the lessor, the boxcar was wrapped earlier this month at its Hearne, Tex., facility and unveiled during its annual Customer Training Seminar. The car is now on its way to BNSF. 

Said BNSF via LinkedIn: “BNSF and GATX, provider of leased railcars, are both serious about sustainability. To celebrate that dedication to reducing our environmental footprint, and remind everyone that rail is the most sustainable form of surface freight transportation, GATX is sending us a boxcar that’s green—literally. The car will be in use across our network. Keep an eye out and maybe you’ll spot it!”

The boxcar is similar to the one built for and wrapped by GATX for Kansas City Southern’s Save the Monarch Butterfly 60,000 Tree Challenge North American Boxcar Tour.