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The standard designed covered freight wagons were intended by the Deutsche Reichsbahn for the transport of livestock and general cargo and are therefore sometimes referred to as "cattle wagons". They were mainly used in the East for the "transport of Jews" and thus became the "central symbol for the Nazi deportations."
Hbillns wagon with sliding sides in ITL’s green livery Commonwealth Oil Corporation goods wagon in Australia. Goods wagons or freight wagons [1] (North America: freight cars), [2] also known as goods carriages, goods trucks, freight carriages or freight trucks, are unpowered railway vehicles that are used for the transportation of cargo.
Conestoga Wagon 1750–1850: Freight Carrier for 100 Years of America's Westward Expansion (3rd ed.). George Shumway. OCLC 1338320. Simpson, Wilma Hicks (12 March 2013). Greater Than the Mountains was He: The True Story of Johann Jacob Shook of Johann Jacob Shook of Haywood County, North Carolina. Tate Publishing. ISBN 978-1-62295-460-5.
The Victorian Railways used a variety of former traffic wagons around depots and for specific construction, maintenance and similar tasks. Very few of these vehicles were specially constructed from scratch, often instead recycling components or whole wagon bodies and frames from old vehicles that had been withdrawn from normal service as life-expired or superseded by a better design.
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A Class 92 hauled container freight train on the West Coast Main Line, United Kingdom A long grain train of the Union Pacific Railroad crossing a bridge in Washington state, United States Freight trains wait for departure in Zhengzhou, China. Rail freight transport is the use of railways and trains to transport cargo as opposed to human passengers.
In the early 1860s, deposits of silver were discovered in the Humboldt Range of Nevada and in southwest Idaho. The transit of workers and supplies between these mining districts and California was difficult, due to isolation and the lack of wagon roads and railroads: To reach California, freight either had to be hauled over the dangerous and often snowed-in passes of the high Sierra Nevada, or ...
This wagon is an articulated wagon with three two-axle bogies. The 270 wagons built exclusively for the DB as combination wagons are partly pure 106 ? ft [clarification needed] container wagons with a loading length of 16,100 mm (52 ft 9 + 7 ⁄ 8 in) and partly similar to the T3 pocket wagon section. The type 739 is approved for 140 km/h (87 ...