A Milk Car.

(Photo by Sean Lamb (User:Slambo), CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons)

 

FREIGHT CARS

Freight cars exist in a wide variety of types, adapted to carry a host of goods. Originally there were very few types of cars; the flat car and the boxcar were among the first. Some types of freight cars include:

Autorack

Bottle Car (aka Torpedo Car)

Box Car

Caboose

Centerbeam Car

Coil Car

Combine Car

Container Car

Milk Car

Flat Car

Gondola

Hopper

Refrigerator Car

Schnaubel Car

Spine Car

Stock Car

Tank Car