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A railroad car, railcar (American and Canadian English), [a] railway wagon, railway carriage, railway truck, railwagon, railcarriage or railtruck (British English and UIC), also called a train car, train wagon, train carriage or train truck, is a vehicle used for the carrying of cargo or passengers on a rail transport network (a railroad/railway).
Throughout railroad history, many manufacturing companies have come and gone. This is a list of companies that manufactured railroad cars and other rolling stock.Most of these companies built both passenger and freight equipment and no distinction is made between the two for the purposes of this list.
A Aircraft parts car Autorack Autorail Aérotrain B Baggage car Ballast cleaner Ballast regulator Ballast tamper Bilevel car Boxcab Boxcar Boxmotor Brake van 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 Contents: Top 0 ...
Waggonfabrik Talbot was a rolling stock manufacturer founded in Aachen, Germany, in 1838.The company was an early pioneer of self discharging freight wagons, and in the latter part of the twentieth century a major supplier to the Dutch State Railways (Nederlandse Spoorwegen).
The CDA wagon was a type of hopper railway wagon used by British Rail, and then the privatised railway, to move china clay in South West England. The CDA was based on the same design as the HAA wagons which were used to transport coal, with the prototype CDA being a conversion of the HAA type. The wagons were used for 35 years being introduced ...
The Austauschbau stake wagon was 600 mm longer than the A4 DSV wagon, so that the undercarriage now matched that of the "Gl Dresden" . Optically the wagons can be recognised easily by their trapezoidal strut frames. Most of the 1,600 or so wagons were fitted with wheelsets for transition to broad gauge. Between 1936 and 1938 about 1,200 welded ...
In 2010 Stakhanov Railway Car Building Works reached a record volume of output of products, which totaled 7,434 units of freight rolling stock – an unprecedented result for the entire 45-year-old history of the company. Compared with the 2009 the production of carriages was increased by 4.7 times or for 5,850 cars.
Wagon number, 81 stands for Austria This ITL Hbbillns goods wagon with country code 56 is based in Slovakia Wagon number of an Italian Rgmms flat wagon. Wagon numbers (or coach numbers) are key data for railway operations. They enable a railway wagon or coach to be positively identified and form a common language between railway operators ...