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Years ago many railroads had inspection cars. They were usually a passenger car with a window the full width and height of one end of the car. Behind the window was rows of seats set behind and above each other like the balcony of a theater. <br /> <br />Also there were horse cars used for transporting race horses between the race tracks. The Pennsy even had theater scenery cars for moving play sets between cities. <br /> <br />In Europe there are narrow gauge railroads that have flatcars with standard gauge rails on them. If a load comes in on a standard gauge car they simply load it onto one of these flats and haul it. Saves a lot of trouble transloading cars. I am not aware of any cars like this in the US but there may have been some. When the EBT and CN needed to move standard gauge cars over their narrow gauge lines they simpley put narrow gauge trucks under the cars.
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