Freight rolling stock

unpowered railway vehicle used for freight transport

rolling stock designed to transport liquid and gaseous commodities

thumb|A minecart from the 16th century, found in Transylvania

railroad car designed to carry perishable freight at specific temperatures

enclosed railway wagon used to carry freight

railway wagons for transportation of bulk goods

railway wagon with a flat bed

railroad freight car used for transporting loose bulk commodities

used for intermodal cargo

specialized railroad freight car

thumb|A Burlington Northern Railroad|Burlington Northern extended-vision caboose at the end of a train in 1993 thumb|An ex–Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway|Santa Fe Railway caboose used by [[BNSF Railway as a switching platform]]

thumb|Auto-rack train car carries automobiles thumb|Autorack terminal in New Richmond, Wisconsin thumb|A German autorack similar to the original design with a full load of automobiles An autorack, also known as an auto carrier (also car transporter outside the US), is a specialized piece of railroad rolling stock used to transport automobiles and light trucks. Autoracks are used to transport new vehicles from factories to automotive distributors, and to transport passengers' vehicles in car shuttles and motorail services, such as Amtrak's Auto Train route.

railway car designed to carry double stacked intermodal shipping containers

railway vehicle

goods wagon

thumb|right|Standard gauge goods wagon (freight car) on Rollbock, gauge

vehicle for rail freight transport

refrigerated railway wagon

railway car designed to carry another railway car

open-top railroad freight car used for carrying loose bulk materials

RoadRailers were a trailer or semi-trailer that could be hauled on roads by a tractor unit and then by way of a fifth wheel coupling, operate in a unit train on railway lines. The RoadRailer system allowed trailers to be pulled by locomotives without the use of flatcars, instead attaching trailers directly to bogies.

thumb|right|Loaded Modalohr wagon thumb|Modalohr wagon in loading position The Lohr Railway System or Modalohr System () uses special railway wagons of a type known as piggyback wagons, to carry standard road semi-trailers on the European rail network. They are currently used on the AFF route from France to Italy and Luxembourg to the French border with Spain and vice versa. There are plans to expand this service. They have also been approved for the Channel Tunnel. This articulated railway wagon consists of two low-floor decks, resting on a single Y25 jacobs bogie in the middle and on two Y3

rolling stock used for carrying livestock on railways

thumb|Box car owned by TTX Company|TTX thumb|A wooden-bodied Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway boxcar on display at the [[Mid-Continent Railway Museum in North Freedom, Wisconsin]] thumb|ANR Boxcars on a freight travelling through Farragut, Tennessee. A boxcar is the North American (AAR) and South Australian Railways term for a railroad car that is enclosed and generally used to carry freight. The boxcar, while not the simplest freight car design, is considered one of the most versatile since it can carry most loads. Boxcars have side sliding doors of varying size and operation, and so

railway vehicle and coach number system

international agreement about use of goods wagons in railway traffic

thumb|First CargoBeamer train on the Gotthard railway|Gotthard railway line, April 2015, pulled by [[BLS Cargo]] Cargobeamer is an intermodal transport system. It involves specially designed pallets which can be carried on a road trailer; the pallets are fitted on top of flatcars but can slide sideways to allow trucks to drive on and off smoothly at intermodal terminals. A first testing terminal was opened in Leipzig in Germany; trial runs between Leipzig and Lithuania were planned in November 2010. Since July 2021, the first full CargoBeamer terminal is available to the public transport marke

railway vehicle designed to carry livestock

Shipping container with two end walls

railway goods wagons