Share-based Compensation (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2017

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, related to 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,
	2017			2016
	(in thousands)
Share-based compensation income
Cost of revenues: Manufacturing	$	(18	)	$	(117	)
Cost of revenues: Railcar services	(2		)	(15		)
Selling, general and administrative	(227		)	(179		)
Total share-based compensation income	$	(247	)	$	(311	)