A railroad car, railcar, railway wagon, railway carriage, railway truck, railwagon, railcarriage or railtruck, 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. 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.
A passenger car of the China Railway, 2011
A freight car (boxcar type) for the South Australian Railways, 1926
A Metropolitan line S8 Stock at Amersham in London
An interior of a Circle line S7 Stock in London
Rail transport is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of land transport, next to road transport. It is used for about 8% of passenger and freight transport globally, thanks to its energy efficiency and potentially high speed.
A train in Alaska transporting crude oil in March 2006
A 16th-century minecart, an early example of unpowered rail transport
A replica of a "Little Eaton Tramway" wagon; the tracks are plateways.
A replica of Trevithick's engine at the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea, Wales