Freight and Rail Car

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  1. 2. The main structure of the freight car, which can be a boxcar, gondola, hopper, or other specialized design.
  2. 5. Commonly known as reefers, are specifically designed to transport perishable goods that require temperature-controlled environments.
  3. 8. Have a rounded metal top designed for cylindrical commodities, like copper coils and plastic tubing. They’re a type of gondola that can have an open top or covered metal hood.
  4. 9. Designed for shipping vehicles. It can transport cars, vans, and even light trucks. Can have two to three levels for loading.
  5. 11. Has a large shipping container-sized car with big square openings that are either fixed open or can be opened and closed at will.
  6. 13. Consists of a large cylindrical barrel fixed upon a flatcar which can transport liquid or liquefiable goods
  7. 14. Air brakes are the standard braking system on freight cars, with components like brake shoes, cylinders, and control valves.
  8. 16. These include items like handbrakes, running boards, and ladders.
  9. 18. A container for non-perishable freight shipments, except it can transport loose items. Non-structured commodities, like sugar, coal, and wheat, can benefit from this mode because it can easily dump them from the sides or below
  10. 19. Similar to the flatcar, have short walls around the sides which form a sort of bowl in which loose goods can be transported easily. Often loaded with debris, scrap metal and various railroad related material.
  11. 20. Transports bundled commodities, like packaged wood and construction materials. However, it requires filling the car to capacity to balance the freight evenly via forklift.
  12. 23. Also known as a Flashing Rear-End Device (FRED), is an electronic device mounted on the last car of a freight train. It effectively replaced the caboose in modern rail operations.
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  1. 1. Have a flat, platform-like structure with no overhead roof or enclosing sides.They are commonly used for transporting equipment, machinery, steel, lumber, and even military freight.
  2. 3. A system used in North American railroads to automatically identify railcars using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. Has tags, mounted on each side of the car, also know as AEI.
  3. 4. Also known as double stack cars, for their ability to stack two intermodal shipping containers on top of each other
  4. 6. A part of a railcar's end-of-car components, designed to absorb and manage the forces (Buff and Draft) associated with coupling, starting, stopping, and the general movement of railcars.
  5. 7. Look just like covered hopper cars, with fixed sides and ends, but they don't have a roof on top. carry commodities like coal, petroleum coke, sand and rock.
  6. 10. These are the devices that connect railcars together.
  7. 12. A label that identifies cars carrying commonly hazardous loads that require specific attention.
  8. 14. A flat car with fixed a structural barrier to prevent movement of cargo and protect adjacent rail car from shifting heavy loads.
  9. 15. A type rail vehicle which consist of a number of cars which are semi-permanently attached to each other and share common truck set. Commonly transports intermodal containers.
  10. 17. These are the assemblies that support the carbody and hold the wheelsets.
  11. 21. The components that support, guide, and enable movement of freight railcars. Made up of one axle, two roller bearings and two wheels.
  12. 22. The brake component that is always found on the "B" end of the car.