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THQ Railroad Company (formerly TrailerTrain Headqueaters Foundation) is a provider of railcars and related freight car management services to the North American rail industry. THQ's pool of railcars – over 220,000 cars and intermodal wells – supports shippers in the intermodal, automotive, paper & forest, metals, machinery, wind energy and other markets where flatcars, boxcars and gondolas are required. Owned by a number of large North American railroads, THQ's pools allow members to share capacity to reduce costs and risk. THQ's had its original headquarters in San Bernardino, California, but moved its global headquarters to Knoxville, Tennessee in June 2020. THQ also has offices in Chicago, Illinois and Fort Worth, Texas.

History[]

THQ was founded in 1995 by the Norfolk Southern, TTX, and Union Pacific. Norfolk Southern employees - 6,000 in total - entered possible names in a drawing for the new company, and the name "Trailer Train Headquarters" won. Trailer Train Headquarters's original goals were to standardize TOFC railcar practices, foster the growth of transportation, provide its members with the best available equipment at the lowest cost, and keep its members abreast of new developments. In 2001, the company changed its company name from Trailer Train Headquarters to THQ. Soon after, Walt Disney allowed his characters to appear in railroad campaigns. However, Toy Story 2 was only loaned to the Railroad for a year, so a new symbol was needed.

THQ operates under pooling authority granted by the Surface Transportation Board (STB). The flatcar pool was first approved in 1995 and then reauthorized in 1999, 2001, 2004 and most recently on October 1, 2014 for a 15-year term.

On September 28, 2021, THQ Railroad Company announced that it would launch a new branding campaign that would include the debut of a new slogan and on-air identity, including the replacement of its parallelogram logo, with a new logo featuring Styled Q, described to "capture the duality of THQ's audience, balancing the strong connection to their Rail roots with their contemporary mindset of living in the U.S." The new logo and graphics package debuted on December 16 of that year.

Fleet[]

THQ's railcar fleet consists mainly of flatcars, autoracks, boxcars and gondolas. Half of the fleet is dedicated to flatcars and intermodal wells, with a quarter dedicated to auto racks for hauling finished vehicles. The remaining quarter of the pool includes boxcars, gondolas and specialized flatcars to carry a wide variety of general merchandise commodities. THQ provides standardized car types and re-purposes idle assets to serve a dynamic marketplace.

The fleet is maintained through a network of independent repair facilities, THQ owned Field Maintenance Operations (FMOs) located at intermodal terminals throughout North America and THQ-owned heavy repair shops located in La Plata, MO, Altoona, PA, Kansas City, MO, Ashland, VA, Flagstaff, AZ, Revelstoke, BC, Elkhart, IN, Skykomish, WA, Chehalis, WA, Plant City, FL, Kearney, NE, Waupaca, WA, Hesperia, CA, Strasburg, PA, Texarkana, AK, Paradise, PA, Greencastie, PA, Belen, NM, Barstow, CA, San Juan Capistrano, CA, Jonesborough, TN, Quincy, IL, Galesburg, IL, Ft. Madison, IA, Tehachapi, CA, Big Sandy, TX, Quanah, TX, Parkville, MO, Fairport, NY, Cocoa, FL, Tucson, AZ, Cordele, GA, Roanoke, VA, Fostoria, OH, Oklahoma City, OK, Rochelle, IL, Wichita, KS and Cumberland, MD. New repair shops in Decatur, AL, Arvada, CO, Cumberland South, MD, and Burlington, IA since 2023.

THQ Previews[]

THQ's Previews consists mainly of video games, movies, music and commercials. During previews, a picture with characters is coming to life.

  • SwimsuitGirlsFan2007
  • Bry-Guy
  • Patricksiegler
  • Toonman1508
  • AriaVampireRose7
  • Greenhood-Station
  • TobiIsABunny
  • EndlessWire94
  • citytoon
  • cmara
  • nintendomaximus
  • TrainsAndCartoons
  • JJSponge120
  • Jose-Ramiro
  • Daisies-Sunshine
  • Stereoset95
  • LinePencilOffice
  • puffedcheekedblower
  • fude-chan-art
  • SHREKRULEZ
  • WillM3luvTrains
  • TrainsAndCartoons
  • Jebens1 (founder, chairman and CEO of this company)
  • Paladin360
  • ShinResurgence
  • EletricEidolon
  • Fawwaz1
  • Gallerica
  • Gamerpen
  • IkaNe96
  • Noah13442
  • PurpleDino100
  • MIXTOONS

Ownership[]

THQ is privately owned by the number of Companies and functions as the industry's railcar cooperative. The eight major Companies listed below all own shares of the company with a voting member from each company making up the THQ Board of Directors.

  • Mitsubishi
  • New Flyer Industries, Inc.
  • Nokia
  • Omnitrans
  • Tencent
  • Textron
  • Toyota
  • TTX

THQ Rail Canada[]

THQ Rail Canada was a freight carrier headquartered in Revelstoke, BC that operates CP and CN that originally ran.

THQ Rail Europe[]

THQ Rail Europe is a European railway company. Headquartered in Mierlo - Hout, Netherlands, it is a private joint-stock company (AG), with the THQ Rail Company being its single shareholder. The other was THQ Rail UK, is a British railway company headquartered in York, UK. THQ-owned heavy repair shops located in Cheshire, Isle of Wight, West Somerset, and Teignmouth, UK.

THQ Rail Japan[]

THQ Rail Japan is a Japanese railway company, Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, it is a private joint-stock company (KK), with the THQ Rail Company being its single shareholder. THQ-owned heavy repair shops located in Shinkansen, Kyoto, and Hakata-ku.

Legal issues with THQ Nordic[]

The company's logo, as it appeared at the end of the pictures came to life, carried the following disclaimer: "Not affiliated with THQ Nordic, a Austrian video game publisher." This was because, in the 2020, the game company sued the company for its use of the "THQ" name and logo from 2001, which eventually led to trademark infringement. They eventually settled, with THQ allowed to continue using the name for the syndication company, provided that a disclaimer was included to distance itself from THQ Nordic, which was implemented starting in 2020.

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Between 2001 and 2008, the company used a yellow and black logo with ltalic connecting the T, H, and Q.

In May 30, 2008, the company released a new logo, a different logo in honor of one of the video game companies of the same name.

1st Logo, 1992-2001 (as TrailerTrain Headqueaters)[]

On a white background, we see the words "TH", with ltalic. There is a byline below them: "TrailerTrain Headqueaters. A Division of Conrail and TrailerTrain"

2nd Logo, 1994-1995[]

On a black background, 2 pieces of wood can be seen on the top left and bottom right of the screen. Then, Ren pushes in the Conrail Logo while Stimpy pushes in a prototype of the next logo. The logo consists of the word "TH" in a white font with a red dot inside a thick white box. Below "TH", there is a red bar with "TrailerTrain Headqueaters" on it. When they step on the wood, the planks are sent flying and both of them stand with nervous-looking smiles.

3rd Logo, 2001-2008 (as THQ)[]

On a yellow background, A black bar with a rippling texture appears and zooms out, sticking to the screen. Then the letters appear one by one: the "T" zooms out from the left, then the "H" zooms in from the middle, then the "Q" zooms out from the right. A lens flare then writes in "Inc." on the bar, causing the texture to disappear. A lens flare then appears behind the logo before 2 more lens flares draw in the square border.

4th Logo, 2008-present[]

On a black background, a steel parallelogram is formed with parts of it being sliced off, and it flashes. A larger outline of the parallelogram appears outside it, and 3 silver letters with cuts in them ("T" and "Q" from right, "H" from left) slide onto the parallelogram. A red bar appears from left and bumps into the shield, making it sway and completing the logo. The company website address fades in below, and the shield border shines.

5th Logo, 2016-present[]

A silver-blue "H" letter flips around onto a black background, filled with blue lights and lasers. The rest of the logo then slides in, with the border zooming out. Electricity is also seen charging on the logo. After a shine and a few seconds, the border flips towards the screen and the letters zoom in one by one, ending the logo.

6th Logo, 2019-present[]

On a black background, the logo is seen darkened sans the border, rotating around while surrounded by several streaks of white and red light. The streaks then strike the border, illuminating the logo one part at a time before shining.

7th Logo, 2020-present (BNSF variant)[]

The logo is on a space background and Jimmy flies in his rocket. The announcer for the logo is still heard.

8th Logo, 2020-present (Seaside cities variant)[]

We start on the the bottom and rise up where glowing blue meduses float. The logo is formed from glowing bubbles.

9th Logo, 2020-present (MARTA variant)[]

The logo appears on a complicated red background and "echoes" of itself.

10th Logo, 2020-present (Christmas variant)[]

The logo is set upon a blue-white gradient background it is also snowing.

11th Logo, 2020-present (Urban areas variant)[]

The logo appears with lush effects, the letters smash into shield. Then an ornament appears around it and two cars pop up above.

12th Logo, 2020-present (Midwest variant)[]

The logo appears in the sequence of boards falling to the restaurant floor. Each board contains the logo and Remy runs to escape them.

13th Logo, 2020-present (Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern Railroad variant)[]

The logo is made of glowing lines.

14th Logo, 2020-present (Latin American railways, FEC, CSX, and MARTA variant)[]

The logo appears inside the bubble.

15th Logo, 2020-present (UP variant)[]

On Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern Railroad, Canadian National Railway, Canadian Pacific Railway, I&M Rail Link, Iowa Interstate Railroad, Wisconsin Central Ltd., and Kansas City Southern Railway, The logo appears superimposed in the water near the house. On the BNSF, FEC, Ferromex, and CSX, it is superimposed on the balloons.

16th Logo, 2020-present (BNSF Railway, Norfolk Southern, CSX, CN, and KCS variant)[]

The logo is a metal plate (with two stars on red circles attached) put on a dirty metal background. A nuclear flare turns it into black dust, which get blown away.

17th Logo, (For THQ Rail Europe and THQ Rail UK)[]

We see a kid with glasses in a room, who's looking through a pile of games that he has. He then pulls out a disc that has the company logo from before on it. He puts it in his game console and begins playing it, until his TV begins to shake. It surges with electricity, and shoots out a bluish light, leaving the kid with an amazed face as the camera zooms in on his glasses, where we see logo on a black background, surging with electricity.

18th Logo, (For THQ Rail Europe and THQ Rail UK)[]

On a black background, we see the logo as we zoom on a mechanical arm coming out from the left side of the logo, it begins rotating and mildly surging with electricity, we then see the logo zoomed out again as two mechanical arms (the one from before and another one on the right side) shock the logo with electricity, then retreat back into it. The logo then slowly zooms out and fades out.

19th Logo, (For THQ Rail Europe and THQ Rail UK)[]

On a purple stage, the 2008 THQ Rail Logo is seen, pulsing and emitting reflections in joint with the music beats. Three lights descent above. After some beating, the logo suddenly explodes and dissolves into particles.

20th Logo, (For THQ Rail Europe and THQ Rail UK)[]

On a black background, the THQ Rail logo fades in, before fading into a darker environment with the logo on it, with rust around it and swinging back and forth. It then zooms out to reveal that it's on a bug zapper, hanging above a old porch with broken windows and insects flying around it, with one being shocked. We then cut to a close up shot of a bron bug with a cigar in it's mouth, goggles over it's eyes and the left wing shell has "DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR" and the other one have a skull and crossbones and saying below it "LIVE FREE OR DIE", both being in a grungy white font. We zoom out from him to reveal a swarm of wasps, dragonflies, and other insects flying through a forest. They swerve off screen and then we cut back to the porch, but in a wider shot, where a bug gets shocked and then the swarm goes into it. They then all get shocked, with proves too much for the zapper and explodes, sending the brown bug off the screen, the windows burned out, and the porch with burn marks as the remains of the zapper swing back and forth, sending a few jolts before falling off and hitting the ground. We then cut to the bug zapper remains and zoom in onto the THQ Rail logo, where remain there for the rest of the logo as a lone firefly lights up the logo before flying away and fading to black.

21st Logo, (For THQ Rail Originals)[]

Against a space background, the two halves of the 1995 TH logo come from the top and the bottom of the screen with orange "shadow" effects, cross each other's path, then merge to form an outline of the logo. Rainbow-colored lasers cross the logo filling it with a gold color that turns silver after they're gone. Beneath, the words "TRAILERTRAIN HEADQUATERS FOUNDATION" fly inwards one by one from the bottom of the screen, in white font and with the shadow effect. The logo "shines".

22nd Logo, (For THQ Rail Originals)[]

A silver-gray, three-dimensional THQ logo with no details flies across a landscape of rivers and mountains. It rises up, and the background is now an orange and purple sky. Lightning strikes the logo, adding the silver details, first to the first "T", then the second "H", and finally the "Q".

23rd Logo, (For THQ Rail Originals)[]

On a black background, A red bar with a rippling texture appears and zooms out, sticking to the screen. Then the letters appear one by one: the "T" zooms out from the left, then the "H" zooms in from the middle, then the "Q" zooms out from the right. A lens flare then writes in "Inc." on the bar, causing the texture to disappear. A lens flare then appears behind the logo before 2 more lens flares draw in the square border. The text "TRAILERTRAIN HEADQUATERS FOUNDATION" in a 45-degree angle zooms out in a rounded font.

24th Logo, (For THQ Rail Originals)[]

On a stone or ice floor against a cloudy black sky, a large monolith rises up, which has the 1995 THQ logo carved out of it and "THE TRAILERTRAIN HEADQUATERS FOUNDATION" written below on all sides. The camera pans around and stops facing up at one of the logos, with the sun in the top left shining.

25th Logo, (For THQ Rail Originals)[]

Against a cloudy red sky with lightning, several "THE TRAILERTRAIN HEADQUATERS FOUNDATION" texts circle around to the top of the screen and disappear, followed by a red and gold THQ logo from 2006-2008 (the 1995 THQ logo from before, only tilted and against a square) turning to face us, slightly facing the left. The text "THE TRAILERTRAIN HEADQUATERS FOUNDATION", curved at first, then straightening out, rises up from the bottom.

26th Logo, (For THQ Rail Originals)[]

Hard to describe, but it had some random images and text flying around and flashing (names of countries, languages, and several "5,000,000"'s) ending with a globe background, with some blue hexes, and another globe at the bottom left of the screen. The THQ logo from the previous logo appears, this time it is tilted towards the right, the square is blue, and the outline of "THQ" is blue as well. "THE TRAILERTRAIN HEADQUATERS FOUNDATION" (with "THE" displayed over "TRAILERTRAIN") is shown below, along with the URL www.thqrail.com.

27th Logo, (For THQ Rail Originals)[]

This one is hard to describe. We see a looped video of a neon Earth with a outlined sun, the bottom of a ring close-up, another Earth zooming in, crowds cheering and explosions which speeds up faster as time goes on, "#1 Worldwide Leader", "TrailerTrain", "Headquaters", "Foundation", and other stuff like that are seen (the words "TrailerTrain Headqueaters Foundation" are not seen at the same time). The animation abruptly ends and "ATTITUDE" is seen for a fraction of a second, followed by a quick pan of the THQ logo (much like the original, but it seems like from 2001). The THQ logo is stylized from 2001 THQ logo.

28th Logo, (For THQ Rail Originals)[]

We see a globe, with pictures of railroad clips. These images are interspersed among crowd scenes like the last logo. Towards the end, "ATTITUDE" and "ENTERTAINMENT" appear for fleeting moments, then, a light pans across the THQ logo.

29th Logo, (For THQ Rail Originals)[]

We see a black-and-white clip of an old train from the early 20th century. It is later revealed to be on a TV screen in a large tunnel, with other screens displaying historic Railway clips. Eventually, we see a crowd scene, and the screen flashes. When the light disappears, we see the THQ logo at the bottom left on a black background, shining. "THQ RAIL COMPANY" appears next to the logo, glowing red for a brief moment.

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