Name that rolling stock...

[Anonymous]

Though I've been in the hobby for a long time, I still don't know what every freight car out there is. I know there are basically box cars, reefer cars, covered hoppers, open hoppers, coil cars, flat cars, gondolas, auto racks, twin stack well cars, tanker cars, bulk head flat cars, stock cars and cabooses. What others did I leave out ?.

[Anonymous]

Centerbeam flat cars, ore jimmys, hot metal cars, slag cars, coke cars, passenger cars, taconite cars, and log cars.

[cefinkjr]

"passenger cars" covers a whole host of cars; e.g., coaches, diners, parlor cars, sleepers, observations, baggage cars, combination cars (aka combines), RPOs, and probably some more that I've missed. And within each of these general categories, you can find nearly infinite variety.

This sort of thing -- and the fact that most operate on the same track gauge and can couple to each other -- is one of the fascinations that has held my interest in railroads for 50+ years.

But, hey, as a kid in Southwestern Pennsylvania, I thought it must be special equipment if it wasn't a hopper. [:D]

Chuck

[dehusman]

depending on how detailed you want to get and what you consider a different car is (is a cushion underframe plug door 70 ton 50 ft boxcar 10' 6' IH different from a non cushion draft gear 100 ton plain 10' wide door 50 ft 12' IH boxcar) then there are literally hundreds of variations.

Dave H.

[leighant]

automobile boxcars

pulpwood rack cars (NOT flat cars since have no flat deck)
http://www.railimages.com/albums/kennethanthony/aaw.jpg
http://www.railimages.com/albums/kennethanthony/aax.jpg

box-tank (tank enclosed in boxcar-type body)
http://www.railimages.com/albums/kennethanthony/abb.jpg

ventilated boxcars (used for watermelons in 1920s)

stock cars

ice cars (for hauling ice used in refrigerator cars. The ice is not refrigeration but the commodity carried.)

side dump cars

roofed hopper (ancestor of covered hopper)

carbide container cars

helium tank car
http://www.railimages.com/albums/kennethanthony/aab.jpg
(gray car closest to base entry gate)

covered gondola (ancestor of coil car)

sulphur gondola
http://www.railimages.com/albums/kennethanthony/aaf.jpg


"green tie" car for untreated wood cut to be made into railroad ties
http://www.railimages.com/albums/kennethanthony/adg.jpg
http://www.railimages.com/albums/kennethanthony/adh.jpg

plus many other if you variations of gondolas and major car types, and more if you include non-revenue maintenance-of-way equipment

Models are N scale.

[twhite]

Don't let them confuse you. Out here in SunnyCal, we have only one kind of car--Refrigerator Car. That's all anyone needs to know. Just make sure you have LOTS of them.
Tom [:P][:P][:P]

[Anonymous]

Left out were mailcars and the special "dome" passenger cars.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dehusman

depending on how detailed you want to get and what you consider a different car is (is a cushion underframe plug door 70 ton 50 ft boxcar 10' 6' IH different from a non cushion draft gear 100 ton plain 10' wide door 50 ft 12' IH boxcar) then there are literally hundreds of variations.

Dave H.

You tell it Dave...