What are some different kind of railroad cars?

Question

like- flatbed, caboose, passenger, cattle car...what else

Answer 1

There are many different types along with special pourpose type cars for a particular commodity. Air slide hoppers, Gondolas, Ballast cars or those designed for hauling rock.

Wood chip cars, Container type trains, Piggy back flats, Reefers, Tank cars, Insulated box cars, Center beam flats, Bulk head flats. The list seems endless.

Answer 2

Flat cars; bulkhead flat car (for lumber), center beam flat car (for lumber), depressed center flat car (for heavier or taller loads), TOFC flat car (for trailers and containers), well car (for containers), rail runner flat car (for trailers, these are single axle cars), anode flat car (similar to a bulkhead flat only with shorter bulkheads, used for shipping aluminum ingots or steel plates), ribbon rail flat car. log car, pulpwood flat car (similar to a bulkhead flat with wrap around bulkheads), Schnabel car (this one is for really heavy loads with many wheels underneath).

Box cars; hi-cube box car (for lighter but bulkier loads, such as toilet paper), double door box car, all door box car, plug door box car.

Gondola cars; covered gondola, drop end gondola, coil steel cars (also called "hog troughs"), mill gondola cars.

Hopper cars; covered hopper car, wood chip hopper car, ore car, air dump car, ballast hopper, coal-veyor and beet hoppers (aka "beet racks).

Tank car; funnel tank car, glass lined tank car (for foods and commodities corrosive to metal), water service tank car  (equipped with pumps for "fire trains").

Caboose; bay window caboose, cupola caboose, wide vision cupola caboose, off-set cupola caboose, bobber caboose.

Miscellaneous; road railer (trailers that ride on railroad wheels with no car under them), livestock car, auto carrier car (aka "auto racks"), derrick car, dynamometer car, spreader and flanger (these two are for snow removal) and cars used in steel mills to move molten metal.

Answer 3

The flatbed is more commonly known as a flat car.  There are many variations of this such as the bulkhead flat, which has two ends sticking up making it look like a short football goal post.  There is a center beam flat car with a rack system for hauling lumber.  There is even a depressed center flat which has a dip for carying tall, heavy loads.  The caboose is rare in daily service.  There are no working cattle cars I know of.

Not on your list are some of the most common cars.  The covered hopper is the most common, followed by the box car.  There are tank cars and open topped hoppers too.  Last is the gondola which is an open box car, or can even look like a hopper, but without a discharge system at the bottom.

Answer 4

Go to Yahoo search type in "different types of railroad cars" then click on images. Look for one that may have a chart or URL appears to be railroad related.