Boxcar – Carries freight in crates or pallets. Some are refrigerated and carry fruit and vegetables.
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Passenger Car – Carries people.
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Autorack – Carries finished vehicles, such as trucks, cars, and SUVs.
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Centerbeam – Carries bundled goods, such as lumber, fence posts, and other building supplies.
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Covered Hopper – Carries free-flowing freight, such as wheat, soda ash, rice, and sand.
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Open Hopper – Carries free-flowing freight which doesn’t need to be protected from weather, such as coal, coke, ores and gravel.
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Gondola – Carries heavy, bulky items, such as scrap metal, steel, copper, iron, coal and ore.
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Flat Car – Carries pipe, rail, steel plate, tractors, tanks,and logs.
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Tank Car – Carries liquids such as, chemicals, corn syrup, ethanol, molasses, water, oil, gas and diesel fuel.
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Caboose – Rear end car housing crew quarters and offices. Rarely seen past the 1980’s due to computerization replacing some train roles.
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Rotary Snowplow – Mechanical snow removal machine used in regions with heavy winters.
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Maintenance vehicles – Various unique specialty railroad cars that areused in the repair and construction or railroad tracks.
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