List of railway vehicles
This is a list of all types of vehicle that can be used on a railway, either specifically for running on the rails, or for maintenance or up-keep of a railway.
General classes of railway vehicle
Railway vehicles listed by usage
Traction vehicles or propelled cars
- Autorail
- Cab car or Control car (rail)
- Driving Van Trailer
- Driving Brake Standard Open
- Shunter or Switcher
- Tank locomotive
Passenger use
Container use
- Boxmotor
- CargoSprinter
- Conflat
- Double-stack car
- Megafret
Bulk freight
- Boxcar (US)
- Centerbeam cars
- Covered hopper
- Covered wagon (UIC)
- Double door boxcar
- Flatcar
- Gondola (rail) (US)
- Goods wagon
- Hicube boxcars
- Hopper car
- Open wagon (UIC)
- Refrigerator car (US)
- Refrigerated van (UIC)
- Tank car (US), Tank wagon (UIC)
Specialist use
Ancillary vehicles
- Brake van
- Caboose
- Crane (railroad)
- Handcar
- Roll-block wagon
- Scale test car
- Transporter wagon
- Outfit Car or a Camp Car[1]
Military use
Maintenance of Rail vehicles
Comboliner, used to align rails
- Adzer/Cribber
- Anchor machine
- Ballast cleaner
- Ballast regulator
- Ballast tamper
- Clearance car
- Comboliner
- Crew car
- Dynamometer car
- Flanger
- HiRail truck
- OTM reclaimer (scrap loader)
- Railgrinder
- Rail heater
- Rotary snowplow
- Speedswing
- Speeder
- Spike puller
- Spiker
- Spiker gauger
- Tie crane
- Tie Spacer
- Track geometry car
- Track renewal train
- TR10
- Tower cars, used to maintain overhead lines
Railway vehicles listed alphabetically
B
C
- Cab car
- Caboose
- CargoSprinter
- Centerbeam cars
- Clearance car
- Coach (rail)
- Conflat
- Container car
- Coil car (rail)
- Comboliner
- Comet (passenger car)
- Control car (rail)
- Couchette car
- Covered hopper
- Crane (railroad)
- Crew car
D
G
- General Utility Van
- Gondola (rail)
- Grain car
H
- Handcar
- Hicube boxcar
- High speed train
- HiRail truck
- Hopper car
M
O
- Observation car
- Outfit Car or a Camp Car[1]
R
S
References
- "General Code of Operating Rules: Section 5.12: Protection of Occupied Outfit Cars". Archived from the original on 2002-12-28. Retrieved 2008-06-19.
- "Welcome to Saskrailmuseum.org". Contact Us. September 11, 2008. Archived from the original on October 15, 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-03.
- "Megafret" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-07-05. Retrieved 2012-11-22.
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