Railynx

Our mission:

DECARBONIZE LAND-BASED FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION

Climate Change is stressing our environment.

Climate change is stressing our environment, disrupting our lives, and the pace of change is faster than predicted. Extreme droughts, wildfires, heat waves, rising sea levels and damaging storms are in the news almost daily and we are fast approaching tipping points where negative feedback loops will accelerate our planet toward a dire future.

Each year, 56 tons of freight is moved for every man, woman, and child in America.

Freight transportation and supply chain logistics are essential to a functioning economy, but they evolved, like most things, without regard for their environmental impact. Although rail is by far the most energy efficient mode of land-based freight transportation, trucking dominates freight moves in the U.S. (and even more so in the E.U.) with profound negative impacts on the environment and well-being of our society.

Railynx is a response to this call to action.

We face enormous challenges in our fight against climate change, but one thing is certain, we must find new ways to perform essential tasks that don’t involve burning fossil fuels and do it soon. Railynx is a response to this call to action.

Climate Change is stressing our environment.

Each year, 56 tons of freight is moved for every man, woman, and child in America.

Freight transportation and supply chain logistics are essential to any modern economy, but they evolved, like most things, with little consideration for their environmental impact. Even though rail is by far the most energy efficient mode of land-based freight transportation, trucking dominates this market in the U.S. (and even more so in the E.U.) with profound negative impacts on the environment and the health and well-being of our society.

Railynx is a response to this call to action.

The transportation sector

The transportation sector is the largest contributor of CO2 emissions in the United States. Globally, transport has the highest reliance on fossil fuels of any sector and accounted for 37% of CO2 emissions from end-use sectors.

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TRUCKING AND RAIL ARE THE TWO LARGEST LAND-BASED TRANSPORTATION MODES

In this era of complex supply chains, just-in-time, and next day deliveries, shippers place a high value on speed and the predictability of delivery times.

Trucks

Trains

Share of Freight Ton-Miles Moved in 2020

Shipments by Value

Fuel Consumed in 2020 (gallons)

It’s well established that shifting freight from highway to rail reduces energy use and GHG emissions

So why haven’t the railroads, with their obvious advantages in labor and energy efficiency, been better able to compete with trucking.

The answer lies in the design and operation of conventional railroad equipment

Little has changed in 200 years, but this has set the stage for an evolutionary leap in equipment design.

Conventional trains are assembled by stringing together a series of railcars that must be disconnected, sorted, and reassembled at classification yards to route individual railcars to their destination.

This time- and labor-intensive process is often the bottleneck for railroad networks and causes significant delays, discouraging shippers from using rail for high-value freight in this era of Just-in-Time and next day deliveries.

The Solution

RAILYNX is introducing a new design for railroad equipment that will completely decarbonize land-based freight transportation and enable railroads to compete with trucking on speed and predictability of delivery times, but at a lower cost.

Railynx equipment eliminates classification yards and replaces them with small, automated terminals that can load and unload multiple containers simultaneously without lifting them, dispatching the train within minutes.