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Gatx Corp. – ‘10-Q’ for 6/30/20 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

On:  Monday, 8/3/20, at 4:29pm ET   ·   For:  6/30/20   ·   Accession #:  40211-20-74   ·   File #:  1-02328

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  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size

 8/03/20  Gatx Corp.                        10-Q        6/30/20   69:10M

Quarterly Report   —   Form 10-Q
Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 10-Q        Quarterly Report                                    HTML   1.46M 
 2: EX-31.A     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     24K 
 3: EX-31.B     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     24K 
 4: EX-32       Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     22K 
11: R1          Document and Entity Information                     HTML     78K 
12: R2          Consolidated Balance Sheets                         HTML    114K 
13: R3          Consolidated Balance Sheets (Parenthetical)         HTML     30K 
14: R4          Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income     HTML    133K 
15: R5          Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows               HTML    104K 
16: R6          Consolidated Statements of Changes in               HTML     83K 
                Shareholders' Equity Statement                                   
17: R7          Description of Business                             HTML     24K 
18: R8          Coronavirus Impacts                                 HTML     23K 
19: R9          Accounting Changes                                  HTML     31K 
20: R10         Revenue Revenue                                     HTML     29K 
21: R11         Leases                                              HTML    153K 
22: R12         Investments in Affiliated Companies (Notes)         HTML     37K 
23: R13         Fair Value Disclosure                               HTML    231K 
24: R14         Pension and Other Post-Retirement Benefits          HTML     69K 
25: R15         Share-Based Compensation                            HTML     29K 
26: R16         Income Taxes                                        HTML     23K 
27: R17         Commercial Commitments                              HTML     31K 
28: R18         Earnings Per Share                                  HTML     74K 
29: R19         Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)       HTML     53K 
30: R20         Legal Proceedings and Other Contingencies           HTML     24K 
31: R21         Financial Data of Business Segments                 HTML    466K 
32: R22         Discontinued Operations Discontinued Operations     HTML     89K 
33: R23         Leases (Tables)                                     HTML     67K 
34: R24         Fair Value Disclosure (Tables)                      HTML    174K 
35: R25         Pension and Other Post-Retirement Benefits          HTML     70K 
                (Tables)                                                         
36: R26         Commercial Commitments (Tables)                     HTML     30K 
37: R27         Earnings Per Share (Tables)                         HTML     73K 
38: R28         Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)       HTML     53K 
                (Tables)                                                         
39: R29         Discontinued Operations (Tables)                    HTML     90K 
40: R30         Description of Business (Details)                   HTML     21K 
41: R31         Basis of Presentation Pension and Post-Retirement   HTML     23K 
                Benefits (Details)                                               
42: R32         Leases - Components of Lease Income (Details)       HTML     34K 
43: R33         Leases - Maturities of Lease Liabilities (Details)  HTML     28K 
44: R34         Investments in Affiliated Companies (Details)       HTML     29K 
45: R35         Fair Value Disclosure - Narrative (Details)         HTML     40K 
46: R36         Fair Value Disclosure Fair Value Disclosure -       HTML     59K 
                Assets and Liabilities Measured on a Recurring                   
                Basis (Details)                                                  
47: R37         Fair Value Disclosure Fair Value Disclosure -       HTML     25K 
                Amounts Recorded on Balance Sheet Related to                     
                Cumulative Basis Adjustments (Details)                           
48: R38         Fair Value Disclosure Fair Value Disclosure -       HTML     63K 
                Impacts of Derivative Instrument on Statement of                 
                Comprehensive Income (Details)                                   
49: R39         Fair Value Disclosure Fair Value Disclosure -       HTML     65K 
                Impact of Cash Flow and Hedge Accounting                         
                Relationships (Details)                                          
50: R40         Fair Value Disclosure Fair Value Disclosure -       HTML     27K 
                Other Financial Instruments (Details)                            
51: R41         Pension and Other Post Retirement Benefits -        HTML     28K 
                Narrative (Details)                                              
52: R42         Pension and Other Post-Retirement Benefits -        HTML     43K 
                Pension Obligations, Plan Assets, and Other                      
                Post-retirement Obligations (Details)                            
53: R43         Pension and Other Post-Retirement Benefits -        HTML     57K 
                Components of Net Periodic Cost (Benefit)                        
                (Details)                                                        
54: R44         Share Based Compensation - Weighted Average and     HTML     41K 
                Assumptions (Details)                                            
55: R45         Share Based Compensation (Details Textual)          HTML     39K 
56: R46         Income Taxes (Details Textual)                      HTML     22K 
57: R47         Commercial Commitments (Details)                    HTML     27K 
58: R48         Earnings Per Share (Details)                        HTML     68K 
59: R49         Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)       HTML     68K 
                (Details)                                                        
60: R50         Legal Proceedings and Other Contingencies Legal     HTML     23K 
                Proceedings and Other Contingencies (Details)                    
61: R51         Financial Data of Business Segments (Details)       HTML    158K 
62: R52         Discontinued Operations - Narrative (Details)       HTML     29K 
63: R53         Discontinued Operations - Financial Results         HTML     59K 
                (Details)                                                        
64: R54         Discontinued Operations - Assets and Liabilities    HTML     47K 
                (Details)                                                        
65: R55         Discontinued Operations - Operating and Investing   HTML     32K 
                Cash Flow (Details)                                              
67: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML    124K 
10: XML         XBRL Instance -- gatx20200630-10q_htm                XML   2.78M 
66: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX     80K 
 6: EX-101.CAL  XBRL Calculations -- gmt-20200630_cal                XML    236K 
 7: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- gmt-20200630_def                 XML    628K 
 8: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- gmt-20200630_lab                      XML   1.37M 
 9: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- gmt-20200630_pre               XML    901K 
 5: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- gmt-20200630                          XSD    143K 
68: JSON        XBRL Instance as JSON Data -- MetaLinks              303±   452K 
69: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0000040211-20-000074-xbrl      Zip    487K 


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