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Trinity Industries, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides various products and services for the industrial, energy, transportation, and construction sectors primarily in the United States. Its Rail group manufactures and sells railcars and component parts, such as auto carrier cars, box cars, gondola cars, hopper cars, intermodal cars, specialty cars, and tank cars. This group also offers railcar parts used in manufacturing and repairing railcars, such as auto carrier doors and accessories, discharge gates, yokes, couplers, axles, and hitches. It serves customers, including railroads, leasing companies, and shippers of products, such as utilities, petrochemical companies, grain shippers, and construction and industrial companies. The company’s Railcar Leasing and Management Services group leases tank cars and freight cars, as well as provides management services. Its Construction Products group produces concrete, aggregates, and asphalt; manufactures highway products, as well as other steel products for infrastructure related projects; and distributes construction aggregates, such as crushed stone, sand and gravel, asphalt rock, and recycled concrete. This group serves customers, such as contractors and subcontractors in the construction and foundation industry. The company’s Inland Barge group manufactures various inland barges and fiberglass barge covers; dry cargo barges, including deck barges, and open or covered hopper barges that transport various commodities, such as grain, coal, and aggregates; and tank barges used to transport liquid products. This group serves commercial marine transportation companies. Its Energy Equipment group offers structural wind towers, tank containers and tank heads for pressure vessels, tank heads for non-pressure vessels, and propane tanks. The company was founded in 1933 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Tube Lines Ltd.'s business has gone down the tube -- just where it is supposed to be. Through its 30-year contract with London Underground, the company maintains and improves London's larger underground rail lines (Jubilee, Northern, and Piccadilly). In addition to maintenance operations, the company provides distribution, emergency services, and training programs to London Underground; it has also upgraded about 100 of its rail stations. Transport for London, the government agency that runs the London Underground, bought the Tube Lines shares owned by construction and rail specialists Amey and Bechtel in 2010 for about £400 million (about $580 million), returning Tube Lines to public ownership.

Union Pacific Corporation, through its subsidiary, Union Pacific Railroad Company, provides rail transportation services in North America. It has approximately 32,094 route miles linking Pacific Coast and Gulf Coast ports with the Midwest and eastern United States gateways, and provides several corridors to Mexican gateways. The company offers freight transportation services for agricultural products, including whole grains and related commodities, food, and beverage products; automotive products; chemicals, such as industrial chemicals, plastics, and liquid petroleum products; energy products; industrial products; and intermodal containers. Union Pacific Corporation was founded in 1862 and is based in Omaha, Nebraska.

Established in 1978, the company is owned by the Canadian government. In Canada, you can get where you're going via rail. VIA Rail Canada is Canada's national passenger rail service. The company operates some 500 trains weekly and carries about 4 million passengers a year. Its tracks span more than 12,500 km (7,760 miles) from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Great Lakes to Hudson Bay. With a fleet of about 80 locomotives and 400 passenger cars, the company serves more than 450 communities. VIA Rail offers travel packages aimed at domestic and foreign tourists, along with basic intercity transportation.

VR-Group was incorporated in 1995 and is owned entirely by the Finnish government. If you need to get around Finland then you'll probably hitch a ride from the VR-Group. The transport and logistics services group primarily operates a commuter line in Helsinki, but also provides long-distance passenger services and freight shipping (together representing about 50% of revenues). The company restructured its operations in 2009 to include Passenger Services (rail/bus/coach services, restaurant/catering services), Logistics (freight transport), Corporate Services (divisional support), VR-Track (track construction/maintenance), and Russian and International Business (telecommunications, European business).

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