car_types

Question 1

Train Car Types

Answer 1

AutorackCovered HopperOpen-Top HopperTank carsGondolas BoxcarRefrigerated BoxcarFlatsCenterbeamCoil CarWell Car

Question 2

Autorack Car

Answer 2

vehicles

Question 3

Boxcar

Answer 3

wide variety of crated or palletized freight(paper, lumber, packaged goods, beverages, and boxes)

Question 4

Centerbeam

Answer 4

bundled goods (lumber, wallboard, fence posts, and other building supplies)

Question 5

Covered Hopper

Answer 5

free-flowing dry bulk commodities(cement, roofing granules, sand, corn, wheat, barley, fertilizer, soda ash, sugar, and rice)

Question 6

Coil Car

Answer 6

coiled steel, steel plate, or high-grade ores

Question 7

Flatcar

Answer 7

Pipe, rail, steel plate, machinery, steel beams, tractors, military vehicles, lumber, poles, and logs

Question 8

Gondola

Answer 8

heavy bulk commodities(scrap metal, aggregates, logs, lumber, steel, sand, copper, and iron ore)

Question 9

Open-Top Hopper

Answer 9

coal, petroleum coke, rock, and copper concentrate

Question 10

Refrigerated Boxcar

Answer 10

perishable freight(fresh fruits, vegetables, frozen food, beverages, meat, poultry, seafood, cheese, and other refrigerated shipments)

Question 11

Tank Car

Answer 11

compressed or liquid commodities(chemicals, molasses, edible tallow, water, asphalt, diesel fuel, and diesel exhaust fluid)

Question 12

Well Car

Answer 12

Intermodal containers which can hold a wide variety of goods.