Does anyone know what company owns reporting marks TCSX? I’ve exhausted every resource I know about and have available to me, and have come up with nothing.
TCSX freight cars include gondolas and rapid-discharge aggregate hopper cars, all of which (in my experience) were relettered and usually renumbered from reporting marks GRR (Georgetown Railroad, in Texas). In fact, I saw a yard full of TCSX cars, and nothing GRR was left.
Several older online sources (some potentially less than reputable) link it to a company called Tank Car Services Incorporated.
Could this mean the tank cars services division of Appalachian Railcar?
Despite the initials, it seems TCSX is not affiliated with Triple Crown.
I’d completely forgotten about Triple Crown! No, it wouldn’t be those, and Tank Car Services is long defunct, having been gone before Triple Crown came around.
Didn’t Triple Crown trailers run under TCSU or TCSZ initials?
Yes, but I’ve never heard of Triple Crown diversifying into Railcar owning or leasing, or even renting out reporting marks as a “flag of convenience”, like Arkansas-Oklahoma does.
TCSX is the assigned reporting mark for Texas Crushed Stone Co. of Georgetown, Tex. This from the reporting mark listing compiled by the Piedmont and Western Railroad Club http://www.pwrr.org/rrm/index.html According to the Texas Crushed Stone Co. website, Bill Snead, president of TCS, also holds the majority interest in the Georgetown Railroad, thus the change in initials from GRR to TCSX. There must be some dodge in car-hire or similar as Watco’s SKOL has equipment changed to WAMX initials, and Umimin has relettered cars built with WW initials (Unimin-owned Winchester & Western Railroad) to WWUX (Unimin) initials. Kurt Hayek
Thank you so much, Kurt! I’ll have to look up the pwrr website, as my usual go-to site hasn’t been regularly updated for over a decade. Texas Crushed Stone makes perfect sense!