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A railcar (not to be confused with a railway car) is a self-propelled railway vehicle designed to transport passengers. The term "railcar" is usually used in reference to a train consisting of a single coach (carriage [citation needed], car), with a driver's cab at one or both ends.
A railroad car, railcar (American and Canadian English), [a] railway wagon, railway carriage, railway truck, railwagon, railcarriage or railtruck (British English and UIC), also called a train car, train wagon, train carriage or train truck, is a vehicle used for the carrying of cargo or passengers on a rail transport network (a railroad/railway).
Railcar, a self-propelled railway vehicle designed to transport passengers Railroad car , a vehicle used for the carrying of cargo or passengers on a rail transport network Topics referred to by the same term
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Steam railcar Enfield built by William Adams for the Eastern Counties Railway in 1849. Note the raised buffers for use with other rolling stock. From 1847–1849 William Bridges Adams built a number of steam railcars, vehicles with a steam engine for propulsion and passenger accommodation.
Among these railcars, the XC 11000 is a set of nineteen units from the type 2 and 2 bis series, ordered by the AL, State, PLM, and Midi (then PO-Midi) networks and integrated into the SNCF workforce when it was created in 1938. These railcars, which entered service gradually in the early 1930s, were mostly written off after the war.
The Surfliner is a family of bi-level intercity railcars [1] derived from the California Car. Like its predecessor, it is derived from the Superliner in design, and operated on Amtrak California's intercity routes in California. They are owned by both Amtrak and California Department of Transportation (Caltrans).