Share-based Compensation (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2014

Disclosure of Compensation Related Costs, Share-based Payments [Abstract]

Schedule of share-based compensation expense

The following table presents the amounts incurred by ARI for share-based compensation, or stock appreciation rights (SARs) and the corresponding line items on the condensed consolidated statements of operations that they are classified within:

	Three Months Ended   September 30,				Nine Months Ended   September 30,
	2014		2013		2014		2013
	(in thousands)
Share-based compensation expense
Cost of revenues: Manufacturing	$	239	$	195	$	1,002	$	689
Cost of revenues: Railcar Services	13		70		251		102
Selling, general and administrative	288		900		3,259		3,449
Total share-based compensation expense	$	540	$	1,165	$	4,512	$	4,240