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{{Short description|American owner of boxcars}}
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| logo             = Any Load - Any Road - TTX Logo.svg
| logo_alt         = Railbox's "Next Load, Any Road" logo
| image            = Boxcar railbox.jpg
| alt              = A yellow boxcar with a Railbox logo painted in black
| caption          = A Railbox XAF20B class boxcar in the 1996 paint scheme
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| parent_company   = [[TTX Company]]
| headquarters     = [[Charlotte, North Carolina]], [[United States]]
| marks            = ABOX, FBOX, RBOX, TBOX, TOBX
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| start_year       = {{Start date|1974}}
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| gauge            = {{Track gauge|Standard gauge}}
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'''Railbox Company''' {{reporting marks|ABOX|FBOX|RBOX|TBOX}}, founded in 1974, is a North American [[boxcar]] [[Pooling (resource management)|pooling]] company, and a subsidiary of the [[North Carolina]]–based [[TTX Company]].<ref name="Boyd 2001 p104">{{cite book |first=Jim |last=Boyd |title=The American Freight Train |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cLUkqc18yFcC&pg=PA104 |date=2001 |publisher=MBI Publishing |isbn=978-0-7603-0833-2 |page=104 }}</ref> It was created to address a boxcar shortage in the [[United States]] in the 1970s.<ref name="Boyd 2001 p104" />
The concept behind Railbox, as evidenced by the slogan, "Next Load, Any Road" was, because Railbox was jointly owned by many of the railroads as a privately owned [[cooperative]], these boxcars were not subject to load/empty rules. Railbox cars could be assigned for service on any railroad in Canada, Mexico and the United States on lines where an [[Association of American Railroads|AAR]] Plate-C [[Loading gauge#North America|loading gauge]] is permitted. Railbox purchased boxcars from many manufacturers, including [[American Car and Foundry Company]], [[FMC Corporation]], and [[Pullman Company|Pullman-Standard (P-S)]].
==See also==
* [[Demurrage]]
* [[Railgon Company]]
==References==
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[[Category:1974 establishments in Illinois]]
[[Category:Freight rolling stock]]
[[Category:Rail cooperatives]]
[[Category:Rolling stock leasing companies]]
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