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What (who) is freight car - definition

VEHICLE USED FOR CARRYING CARGO OR PASSENGERS ON RAIL TRANSPORT SYSTEM
Freight car; Railway carriage; Railway car; Railroad cars; Train car; Rail carriage; Railroad carriage; Railway wagon; Railway wagons; Railway freight car; Railway waggon; Railway cars; Railcoach; Wagon (railroad vehicle); Freight cars; Railway waggons; Railway camp cars; Railroad car bunkhouse; Car (train)
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freight car         
(freight cars)
On a train, a freight car is a large container in which goods are transported. (mainly AM)
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Railroad car         
A railroad car, railcar (American and Canadian English), 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 system (a railroad/railway). Such cars, when coupled together and hauled by one or more locomotives, form a train.
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  • The storefront of one of many freight forwarders located around [[Guangzhou]]'s garment districts. The list of destinations indicates that this business serves importers of Chinese clothes to countries such as Russia and Azerbaijan.
SERVICE COMPANY THAT HANDLES THE SHIPMENT OF GOODS
International freight forwarder; Freight Forwarding; Non-vessel operating common carrier; NVOCC; Freight forwarding; International Freight Forwarder; Nvoc; Forwarding agent; Package forwarder; Non-vessel-operating common carrier; Freight forwarders; Freight forwarding services; NVOC
Non-vessel-operating common carrier

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Railroad car

railroad car, railcar (American and Canadian English), 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). Such cars, when coupled together and hauled by one or more locomotives, form a train. Alternatively, some passenger cars are self-propelled in which case they may be either single railcars or make up multiple units.

The term "car" is commonly used by itself in American English when a rail context is implicit. Indian English sometimes uses "bogie" in the same manner, though the term has other meanings in other variants of English. In American English, "railcar" is a generic term for a railway vehicle; in other countries "railcar" refers specifically to a self-propelled, powered, railway vehicle.

Although some cars exist for the railroad's own use – for track maintenance purposes, for example – most carry a revenue-earning load of passengers or freight, and may be classified accordingly as passenger cars or coaches on the one hand or freight cars (or wagons) on the other.

Examples of use of freight car
1. Two more migrants were crushed to death by a freight car, blood pooling from underneath.
2. Fourteen people were injured, two seriously, when the train, carrying 502 passengers, slammed into the stationary freight car.
3. Mitchell Police Lieutenant Don Everson said Sunday night that a parked freight car began leaking fumes from an aluminum smelting byproduct, but the fumes were quickly contained.
4. All freight cars currently held up have been emptied of cargo, and RZD would address any complaints over freight car registration, Zudin said.
5. The maneuver was denounced in contemporary newspaper accounts as cowardly and inspired a political cartoon that showed the president–elect furtively peeking out of a freight car, wearing a nightshirt.