Share-based Compensation (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

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   March 31,
	2016			2015
	(in thousands)
Share-based compensation (income) expense
Cost of revenues: Manufacturing	$	(117	)	$	48
Cost of revenues: Railcar services	(15		)	—
Selling, general and administrative	(179		)	59
Total share-based compensation (income) expense	$	(311	)	$	107