Toby Kolstad
PresidentRail Theory Forecasts
Toby Kolstad is President of Rail Theory Forecasts, a firm providing consulting and forecasting services in North American rail freight traffic and railcar demand. Mr. Kolstad has more than 35 years of experience in the railroad industry. He also has experience in managing railroad operations. Prior, Mr. Kolstad was Vice President at Greenbrier Leasing, Director of Car Management at The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, and General Superintendent for the Illinois Central RR. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Tulane University, an MS in Applied Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology, and an MBA in Operations Research from the University of Chicago. (This is me - Update Profile)
| 2001 - present | President Rail Theory Forecasts |
|---|---|
| 1989 - 2001 | Vice President GREENBRIER LEASING, LLC |
| 1985 - 1989 | Director of Car Management The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad (D&RG) |
| 1971 - 1985 | General Superintendent of Car Control ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY |
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| Study Group Name | Members |
|---|---|
| Railcar Leasing Experts | 61 |
| Rail Shipping Service Experts | 144 |
| Railcar Market Experts (EU) | 67 |
| Intermodal Logistics Experts | 93 |
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Trade magazines are usually constrained to write only positive comments about the companies in the industries they cover, since subscriptions and ad revenues are more dependent on goodwill rather than good investigative reporting. In the article reviewed below however, the writer/editor finally fesses...
CEO’s never like to go into lengthy explanations on the dynamics of their industry in explaining a dismal financial performance, but with year to date coal volumes up 4.6%, according to the most recent AAR report, blaming the economy for the problems besetting the company seems more like dodging the...
During the last downturn in the railcar building industry, Greenbrier gained market share while cutting back production since the cars it produced were more popular that the car types manufactured by the other builders. This time around, just the opposite is true; there is almost no demand for the intermodal...
Per the author(s) of this blog, 10Q Detective, the prospects of increasing demand for railroad coal cars is not good and therefore the chances of accelerating growth at Freightcar America is also poor. There is so much that is wrong with this article and how it analyses the demand for new coal cars...
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