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freight train
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train used for transportation of freight
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- train
- Image
- Ruisbroek loc 6282 (50960029491).jpg
- Has use
- freight transport
- Has parts of class
- freight car
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- carries passengers or cargo
- cargo
- Commons category
- Freight trains
- topic's main category
- Category:Rail freight transport
- different from
- passenger train
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Encyclopedic overview
A Canadian National Railway freight train with three locomotives in the Canadian Rockies A freight train, goods train, or cargo train, is a railway train that is used to carry cargo, as opposed to passengers. Freight trains are made up of one or more locomotives which provide propulsion, along with one or more railroad cars (also known as wagons) which carry freight. A wide variety of cargoes are carried on trains, but the low friction inherent to rail transport means that freight trains are especially suited to carrying bulk and heavy loads over longer distances.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “freight train” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.