The mainstay of a railroad is its freight department. Here we gather a variety freight cars in their many road names.
This category is still under construction! More photos are being added to each section.
Boxcars ...
Freight car designed to carry liquids or gases in a tank like container.
Tank Engine
A steam locomotive that carries its fuel and water supply in tanks hung over or alongside the boiler, or on a frame extension at the rear, instead of in a tender.
Freight car with or without sides, but with no roof.
Operating contract
Operation of a minor road in return for a payment to the major road for the service rendered. The minor company continues to exist and to retain ownership of its property.
Freight cars or (UK: "wagons" or "trucks") exist in a wide variety of types, adapted to the ideal carriage of a whole host of different things.
Freight cars and passenger cars were also in the line. Structure kits made by Pola and others were also offered.
AHM later offered Mehanotehnica FA2 and RSD15 locomotives.
Freight car bearing railroad reporting marks
Car Init & Number
Car Initial and Number (Sometimes referred to as CARINO)
Initial and number given to a railcar by the AAR in conjunction with owner's initials as a means of car identification ...
Freight cars owned by the railroad which they are operating on.
Home Signal
The signal protecting the immediate block.
Freight cars designed to carry specific commodities, some of which contain devices to protect and/or aid in handling shipments.
Sperry Car
Railroad car used by Sperry Rail Service to detect weakened or cracked rails.
Waybill
Freight car handling order identifying the shipper, receiver, routing, and contents of the car.
Way Car
A freight car carrying local shipments.
Building a freight car can be a rewarding experience. It's a nice feeling to see a car that you've built run around your layout. Athearn is generally the most popular manufacturer of rolling stock kits.
A device on freight cars that maintains brake cylinder piston travel at a predetermined length to compensate for wear of brake shoes, wheels, and brake rigging.
Automatic Train Control (ATC) ...
Weathering freight cars
Solid-bearing trucks on older freight cars tend to build up grease and oil on the wheels and rust on the sideframes, so you'll want to paint the wheels an oily black color, ...
An LGB freight car represents a 28 foot car in G Scale and a 40 foot car in #1 Scale - same mold - just the paint job is different.
A passenger or freight car converted into movable living quarters for track workers.
Bus, or bus wire
A main wire, or trunk wire, running under a model railroad. Shorter branch wires, such as track power feeders, are connected to it.
Bettendorf-type freight car bogie; note the solid bearings around the ends of the axles.
A CSX cab version of a Diesel-electric Slug' often called a Booster Unit; note the missing radiator and the one piece side panels in lieu of door panels.
LOADS"Loaded freight cars
LOCAL LOAD"A truckload of mail in sacks and parcels sent from the storage car direct to a car on a local train, containing mail for towns along the route of the train
LOUSE CAGE"Caboose ...
AB Valve The operating device used on freight cars for charging, applying, and releasing the brakes. Also called a triple valve ABD Valve An improvement of the AB Valve that features a quick release.
Schnabel car: A specialized type of freight car for extra heavy and over sized loads; the car is loaded in such a way that the load forms part of the car superstructure.
Tank - Freight car designed to carry liquids or gases in a tank like container.
Tea Kettle - Old locomotive, especially a leaky steam locomotive.
"freight car" or "passenger car". In the UK the term is used to denote an electric multiple unit vehicle.
Absolute maximum allowable weight of load, including both net weight and dunnage, that a freight car is authorized to carry. This figure is stenciled on the car.
Pivot Pin
Cylindrical portion of bolster that rotates in base of bolster.
The firm has recently upgraded its product line with scale-detailed diesel locomotives and freight cars, die-cast metal rolling stock, and semi-scale, die-cast metal steam locomotives.
I don't want to delve into the art of weathering as for locomotives or freight cars, but a similar weathering job is needed for the structure you have just built.
flat car — a freight car with an unenclosed flat deck.
flextrack — track which may be laid straight or custom curved by the modeler to virtually any radius. The track comes with rails fastened to realistic ties.
Any coupled set of carriages (passenger cars) and/or wagons (trucks, freight cars). I suspect that this term may have originated in the USA, although it also appears to be generally understood in Australia.
Consolidation
RAILWAYS.
In addition to events held by freight carriers, various historical and preservation groups also host “Santa Trains,' often operated by local commuter, shortline, or tourist railroads.
The revolution in available freight car models in recent years has made it possible to build credible models of many (or most) of the prototypes on any given railroad and era. 1952 was a watershed year on the Rock Island.
Pressed Steel (PSC) developed a version of their car without separate side sills in 1900 and moved into the general freight car business.
" S scale free lance historian Richard Douglass notes, "Issue number 1 was the Jan/Feb 1933 issue, and some of the issues published that first year contained plans for railroad freight cars.
Mixed trains with passenger and freight cars ion the same train ran, and still run even today, in many parts of the world. The Nevada County Narrow Gauge ran scheduled mixed trains for most of its life. S.P., U.P. and A.T.& S.F.
Clip-On-Truck - An ill conceived 1970's innovation, which made a short appearance in the marketplace due to fragility, Kadee® Micro-Trains® clip-on-trucks were attached to a freight car chassis by integrated plastic mounting ears, ...
Wagon
Used to be spelt waggon. An unpowered railway vehicle designed to carry goods only, and usually open at the top. Called a freight car in North America.
The Car shows the distance a train travels on a 5 digit LCD display. The distance is indicated down to 1/100th of a mile (about the length of a 50 foot car) with an accuracy of approximately plus 2 percent using a standard 33 inch freight car ...
 See also: Track, Locomotive, Train, Car, Engine
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