L. E. Peabody & Associates, Inc.

Utilizing our railroad industry expertise and state of the art information systems technology, L. E. Peabody & Associates, Inc. actively manages the rail assets of electric utilities and other railroad car owners and users by providing support for a broad range of asset management requirements. General asset management services encompass fleet and individual rail car tracing and monitoring, rail contract compliance, shipment status updates and fleet maintenance management. Additionally, the Firm has the technical expertise to furnish a broad range of customized management reports on daily, weekly, monthly and yearly bases. These reports, generated from either our offices or from our clients' systems using software licensed from the Firm, greatly simplify a number of reporting requirements including freight claims filings, equipment mileage reporting and mileage allowance reporting.

L. E. Peabody & Associates, Inc. also supplies ancillary services geared specifically towards coal users through application of our "Railman" economic model. Our proprietary fleet asset model, custom designed by the Firm to utilize each user's computer system architecture, can automatically supply inventory and coal quality data to our clients' product management systems. The Firm's rail asset model can also combine basic quality data with contractual specifications to supply sulfur and other impurity adjustment reports to directly generate penalty or premium payments. The end result is comprehensive utilization of rail and fuel supply assets.