99% Occupancy — on Railroad Tracks

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In 1898, a man named Max Epstein was working in the Chicago stockyards. The Duquesne Brewery in Pittsburgh needed refrigerator cars to ship beer. Armour and Co. had 48 old ones gathering rust. Epstein connected the two, bought the cars, and leased them out on long-term contracts. He called his venture Atlantic Seaboard Dispatch. Years later, he described his starting capital this way: "It just consisted of ideas, of faith, and of some nerve."

I saw one of those railcars last fall — not Epstein's original, but the same idea. I was stopped at a crossing outside Houston, watching a freight train crawl past for what felt like ten minutes. Tank cars, hopper cars, chemical cars, grain cars. Each one had a small oval plate bolted near the wheels. You had to squint to read it. Most of them said GATX.

That's the thing I didn't understand about GATX for years. It's not a railroad. It doesn't move freight. It owns the rolling stock — the physical cars — and leases them to the companies that do. Chemicals, oil, food-grade liquids, grain, plastics. If it rides the rails in a tank car, there's a good chance GATX owns the car underneath it.

Epstein's 48-car fleet has grown a bit. The company he started — renamed German-American Car Company, then General American Transportation, then GATX in 1975 — now owns roughly 107,600 railcars in North America alone. Add its European and Indian fleets, and you're past 150,000 globally. It also co-owns one of the largest aircraft spare engine portfolios in the world, through a joint venture with Rolls-Royce.

The economics are simple enough for you to sketch on a napkin. GATX brought in $1.74 billion of revenue in 2025 and earned $333 million in net income. It has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange since 1916. And it has paid a quarterly dividend — every single quarter, without interruption — since 1919. That's 107 consecutive years. Through two world wars. Through the Depression. Through 2008. Through a pandemic. The check has never stopped.

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Look at that utilization number — 99%. That means out of roughly 100,600 active railcars in North America, only about 1,000 are sitting idle. The rest are on the rails, under contract, earning rent. When your vacancy rate is 1%, you're not a landlord with a problem. You're a landlord with a waiting list.

The pricing tells the same story. GATX tracks something it calls the Lease Price Index — a measure of how much more (or less) it charges when a lease renews compared to the old rate. In the fourth quarter of 2025, that index sat at positive 21.9%. Meaning: when a lease came up for renewal, GATX raised the rate by nearly a fifth. And the average term on those renewals was 58 months — almost five years. The customer signs, locks in, and the rent flows. If you've been reading this letter for a while, that pattern should feel familiar.

The Epstein origin story is worth sitting with for a moment. He didn't manufacture railcars. He didn't run a railroad. He spotted a gap — a brewery that needed cars, a meatpacker that had extras — and built a business in between. That gap still exists. Chemical companies, food producers, and energy firms don't want to own 500 tank cars. They want to lease them. And when the car breaks down or needs requalification, they want someone else to handle it. GATX does the maintenance, the compliance, the repositioning. The customer moves product. Everyone stays in their lane.

And the flywheel keeps turning. I keep coming back to this detail. In January 2026, GATX closed a $4.2 billion joint venture with Brookfield Infrastructure to acquire roughly 101,000 railcars from Wells Fargo's leasing arm. That one deal nearly doubled the fleet GATX manages. The company put in 30% of the equity and became the exclusive manager of every car. That means management fees, lease revenue, and an option to acquire the remaining 70% over the next decade. Each year, the fleet gets bigger. Each year, the contracts stack higher. Each year, the dividend goes up — it was raised 8.2% in February 2026 alone.

WHY THIS WORKS

What most people miss: GATX has paid a dividend every quarter since Woodrow Wilson was president. It survived Prohibition, the Depression, two world wars, and a pandemic — and the check never bounced. No algorithm screens for a 107-year streak. But that kind of durability isn't an accident. It's a business model.