List of railway vehicles
This is a list of all types of vehicle that can be used on a railway, either specifically for running on the rails, or for maintenance or up-keep of a railway.
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008) |
General classes of railway vehicle
- Freight car (US)
- Goods wagon (UIC)
- High speed train
- Locomotive
- Multiple unit
- Diesel Multiple Unit
- Electric Multiple Unit
- Passenger car or coach
- Private railroad car
- Railcar or Railbus
- Rail motor coach
- Road-rail vehicle
- Rolling stock
- Tilting train
- Travelling Post Office
Railway vehicles listed by usage
Traction vehicles or propelled cars
- Autorail
- Cab car or Control car (rail)
- Driving Van Trailer
- Driving Brake Standard Open
- Shunter or Switcher
- Tank locomotive
Passenger use
- Baggage car
- Bilevel car
- Coach (rail)
- Comet (railcar)
- Compartment coach
- Corridor coach
- Couchette car
- Dining car
- Dome car
- Observation car
- Open coach
- Parlor car
- Shoreliner
- Sleeping car
- Slip coach
- Superliner (railcar)
Freight use
Container use
- Boxmotor
- CargoSprinter
- Conflat
- Double-stack car
- Megafret
Bulk freight
- Boxcar (US)
- Centerbeam cars
- Covered hopper
- Covered wagon (UIC)
- Double door boxcar
- Flatcar
- Gondola (rail) (US)
- Goods wagon
- Hicube boxcars
- Hopper car
- Open wagon (UIC)
- Refrigerator car (US)
- Refrigerated van (UIC)
- Tank car (US), Tank wagon (UIC)
Special use
- Aircraft parts car
- Autorack
- Coil car (rail)
- Lowmac
- Mineral wagon
- Quarry tub
- Schnabel car
- Slate wagon
- Stock car (rail)
Multi-modal
Ancillary vehicles
- Brake van
- Caboose
- Crane (railroad)
- Handcar
- Roll-block wagon
- Scale test car
- Transporter wagon
- Outfit Car or a Camp Car[2]
Military use
Maintenance of Rail vehicles
- Adzer/Cribber
- Anchor machine
- Ballast cleaner
- Ballast regulator
- Ballast tamper
- Catenary maintenance vehicle
- Clearance car
- Comboliner
- Crew car
- Dynamometer car
- Flanger
- Handcar
- HiRail truck
- OTM reclaimer (scrap loader)
- Railgrinder
- Rail heater
- Rotary snowplow
- Speedswing
- Speeder
- Spike puller
- Spiker
- Spiker gauger
- Tie crane
- Tie extractor/inserter
- Tie Spacer
- Track geometry car
- Track renewal train
- TR10
Railway vehicles listed alphabetically
A
B
C
- Cab car
- Caboose
- CargoSprinter
- Centerbeam cars
- Clearance car
- Coach (rail)
- Conflat
- Container car
- Coil car (rail)
- Comboliner
- Comet (passenger car)
- Control car (rail)
- Couchette car
- Covered hopper
- Crane (railroad)
- Crew car
