The Greenbrier Companies, Inc. engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of railroad freight car equipment in North America and Europe. The company offers double-stack railcars; boxcars to transport forest products, automotive, perishables, general merchandise, and commodities; covered hopper cars for grain and cement industries; gondolas and coil cars for steel and metal markets; conventional railcars; center partition cars for forest products industry; bulkhead flat cars; flat cars for automotive transportation; solid waste service flat cars; tank cars; and marine vessels. It also provides pressurized tank cars for liquid petroleum gas and ammonia; non-pressurized tank cars for light oil, chemicals, and other products; coal cars; sliding wall and automobile transporter cars; and ocean-going barges, including conventional deck and double-hull tank barges, railcar/deck barges, barges for aggregates, and other heavy industrial products and dump barges. In addition, the company offers wheel services, such as new axle machining and finishing; axle downsizing; and wheel, axle, and roller bearing reconditioning, as well as engages in railcar repair and refurbishment. Further, it reconditions railcar cushioning units, couplers, yokes, side frames, bolsters, and various other parts, as well as produces roofs, doors, and associated parts of boxcars. Additionally, the company provides management services, including railcar maintenance management; railcar accounting services, such as billing and revenue collection, and car hire receivable and payable administration; fleet management; administration; and railcar remarketing, as well as operating lease and by the mile lease programs. It owns or provides management services to a fleet of approximately 230,000 railcars for railroads, shippers, carriers, institutional investors, and other leasing and transportation companies. The Greenbrier Companies, Inc. was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Lake Oswego, Oregon.