# Railinc

> Railinc supplies the shared data systems, messaging and software used across North American freight rail. Owned by the Association of American Railroads, it maintains equipment records, exchanges operating and financial information, supports equipment-health workflows and emergency response, and sells shipment and fleet management tools through its TransmetriQ brand.

- **Founded:** 1999
- **Headquarters:** Cary, United States
- **Founders:** Association of American Railroads (Institutional origin and sole owner)
- **Products:** Umler, TransmetriQ Platform, RailSight, AskRail, Equipment Health Management System
- **Notable:** Reported 100% uptime across 13 critical applications in 2024., Reported more than four billion TransmetriQ shipment and equipment updates in 2025., Completed the CPKC system cutover on May 3, 2025.

## Products & services

- **Umler** — Shared equipment registry containing dimensions, capacity, weight, ownership and inspection information for more than two million pieces of equipment.
- **TransmetriQ Platform** — Modular shipment and asset management software, including visibility, demurrage, detention, leasing, reporting and repair workflows.
- **RailSight** — Shipment and equipment event data delivered through tracing tools, feeds and APIs.
- **AskRail** — Free emergency-response application for qualified users to look up railcar contents and hazardous-material information.
- **Equipment Health Management System** — Shares detector-derived equipment-health information and repair alerts with responsible parties.
- **Damaged and Defective Car Tracking** — Electronic workflows for handling damaged or defective railcars.
- **Enhanced Interline Settlement System** — Common configurable revenue-waybill settlement platform with EDI and JSON messaging options.
- **RIGIS Routing + Mileage** — Railroad-supplied network data used to analyze routes, interchange junctions and mileage, refreshed quarterly.
- **CarLogix** — Maintenance, repair, billing and fleet management modules, including automated repair-bill auditing.
- **TransmetriQ Managed Services and Ocean Tracing** — Operational assistance and ocean shipment visibility extending the rail management offering.

## Achievements

- Reported 100% uptime across 13 critical applications in 2024.
- Reported more than four billion TransmetriQ shipment and equipment updates in 2025.
- Completed the CPKC system cutover on May 3, 2025.
- Added nine prioritized machine-vision alert types to EHMS in 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — Joan Smemoe became President on April 1; the announcement scheduled her assumption of the CEO role following Allen West’s July retirement.
- **2026-03** — Announced expanded analytics research with Duke’s Fuqua School of Business.
- **2026-07** — Published version 1.5 of its 2026 price list, dated July 24.

## Links

- Website: https://public.railinc.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/railinc
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/railinc
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Railinc1
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/railinccorp/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RailincCorporation/

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Last updated: 2026-10-01