Patent ID: 7668779

Claim:
A system for tracking and verifying charges billed to a railcar owner by a plurality of railcar repair facilities, including a plurality of railroad-owned railcar repair facilities and a plurality of independent railcar repair facilities, comprising: a server configured to receive billing data received from the plurality of railcar repair facilities; a database in communication with the server and configured to store the billing data; a railroad-owned repair facility graphical user interface configured to provide communication between the server and the plurality of railroad-owned repair facilities; an independent repair facility graphical user interface configured to provide communication between the server and the plurality of independent repair facilities; and a railcar owner graphical user interface configured to provide communication between the server and the railcar owner; wherein the railcar owner interface is further configured to provide the railcar owner with access to billing data received both from at least one of the railroad-owned repair facilities and from at least one of the independent repair facilities.