Consolidated Statements of Operations (unaudited) (USD $) In Millions, except Per Share data, unless otherwise specified	3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2014	Sep. 30, 2013	Sep. 30, 2014	Sep. 30, 2013
Revenues:
Total revenues	$ 1,562.8	$ 1,110.3	$ 4,508.6	$ 3,109.3
Cost of revenues:
Total cost of revenues	1,172.2	836.3	3,344.5	2,359.6
Selling, engineering, and administrative expenses:
Total selling, engineering, and administrative expenses	113.0	70.6	293.0	211.1
Gains on disposition of property, plant, and equipment:
Net gains on railcar lease fleet sales owned more than one year at the time of sale	3.0	1.6	90.2	9.6
Other	0.6	0.6	13.2	0.3
Total gains on disposition of property, plant, and equipment	3.6	2.2	103.4	9.9
Total operating profit	281.2	205.6	974.5	548.5
Other (income) expense:
Interest income	(0.4)	(0.6)	(1.5)	(1.4)
Interest expense	48.2	45.8	141.4	141.5
Other, net	(1.0)	(0.5)	(2.8)	(2.3)
Total other (income) expense	46.8	44.7	137.1	137.8
Income from continuing operations before income taxes	234.4	160.9	837.4	410.7
Provision for income taxes	78.1	55.1	274.5	143.5
Net income from continuing operations	156.3	105.8	562.9	267.2
Discontinued operations:
Gain on sale of discontinued operations, net of provision for income taxes of $-, $-, $- and $5.4	0	0	0	7.1
Income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of provision (benefit) for income taxes of $0.2, $0.1, $- and $(0.7)	0.6	0.3	0.1	(1.2)
Net income	156.9	106.1	563.0	273.1
Net income attributable to noncontrolling interest	7.5	6.5	23.0	10.4
Net income attributable to Trinity Industries, Inc.	149.4	99.6	540.0	262.7
Basic:
Continuing operations (in dollars per share)	$ 0.95	$ 0.63	$ 3.46	$ 1.62
Discontinued operations (in dollars per share)	$ 0.00	$ 0.00	$ 0.00	$ 0.04
Basic (in dollars per share)	$ 0.95	$ 0.63	$ 3.46	$ 1.66
Diluted:
Continuing operations (in dollars per share)	$ 0.90	$ 0.63	$ 3.33	$ 1.62
Discontinued operations (in dollars per share)	$ 0.00	$ 0.00	$ 0.00	$ 0.04
Diluted (in dollars per share)	$ 0.90	$ 0.63	$ 3.33	$ 1.66
Weighted average number of shares outstanding:
Basic (in shares)	151.5	152.2	150.9	153.4
Diluted (in shares)	159.6	152.3	157.0	153.6
Dividends declared per common share (in dollars per share)	$ 0.1	$ 0.075	$ 0.275	$ 0.195
Manufacturing
Revenues:
Total revenues	1,359.8	959.7	3,638.0	2,654.7
Cost of revenues:
Total cost of revenues	1,062.6	767.0	2,827.5	2,134.2
Selling, engineering, and administrative expenses:
Total selling, engineering, and administrative expenses	64.2	43.9	169.7	133.7
Leasing
Revenues:
Total revenues	203.0	150.6	870.6	454.6
Cost of revenues:
Total cost of revenues	109.6	69.3	517.0	225.4
Selling, engineering, and administrative expenses:
Total selling, engineering, and administrative expenses	12.1	8.9	33.8	27.5
Other
Selling, engineering, and administrative expenses:
Total selling, engineering, and administrative expenses	$ 36.7	$ 17.8	$ 89.5	$ 49.9