flatcar
Roofless freight carrier
A flatcar is a railroad freight car with a flat, open deck and no sides or roof.
Flatcars carry cargo that won't fit in enclosed cars—lumber, vehicles, shipping containers, heavy machinery: The crane lowered the steel beams onto the flatcar.
Suspended transport cabin
- tankerVessel for liquid bulk
- hopperTapered dispensing container
- cabooseCrew shelter, train's end
- locomotiveRailway pulling machine
reefer · intermodal · coupler · bogie · handcar
Train staging facility
gondola
Suspended transport cabin
locomotive · reefer · intermodal · coupler · bogie · handcar
railyard
Train staging facility
platform · depot · terminal · interchange · switching · ramp · gantry
lumber
Sawn wood for building
- steelCarbon-hardened iron alloy
- pipesCylindrical fluid carriers
- machineryCollective mechanical equipment
girders · beams · trusses · prefabricated · modules · oversize · tractors · transformers · railings
loading
Adding weight or cargo
chaining · blocking · bracing · dunnage · stacking · tarping · craning · hoisting · forklift · rigging
- rail yardsswitchyard, marshalling yards, receiving yard, yard crew, yardmaster
- trainstrains, train, locomotive, locomotives, steam locomotive
- freight transportfreight train, cargo ship, container, cargo plane, semi truck
- rail transportfreight train, train stations, passenger train, commuter train, express train
- railroadsteam engine, locomotive, caboose, coal tender, track
- railroadstrains, train, tracks, track, locomotive
flatcarboxcar
Enclosed rail freight carrier
covered wagon · refrigerator car · reefer · tank car · hopper car