Have you been following our weekly Freight Car Friday blogs? It’s hard to believe, but we’ve done more than 150 of them now! If there’s one you missed, or maybe just one you’d like to revisit, this index will help you find all you need to know about freight cars and how you can use them on your layout. We’ve added a few relevant posts from other days of the week as well. After all, freight trains don’t just run on Friday.
The index will be updated monthly as we go along. Is there a car we haven’t covered? Drop us a line in the comment box below; we’d welcome your suggestions.
Freight Cars by Type
- Auto Carriers
- Boxcars
- Cabooses
- Covered Hoppers
- Flat Cars
- Gondolas
- Hoppers (open)
- Intermodal
- Maintenance of Way
- Ore
- Reefers
- Stock Cars
- Tank Cars
- Misceleny
Fictional Freight – Prototypical inspirations for some of Lionel’s classic cars.
Freight Car Technology
- Couplers
- Journals
- Trucks
- Reflective Markings
- Safety Appliances
- Car Tracking – ACI and AEI Tags
- Freight Car Data Markings
- Take the Quiz or
- Skip straight to the Answer Key
- Reporting Marks
- Take the Quiz or
- Skip straight to the Answer Key
Industries You Can Model – And the cars that serve them!
- Automotive
- Cement
- Chemicals / Petroleum
- Circus
- Coal / Coke/Ore
- Food Products
- Lumber
- Military
- Steel
- Trash / Scrap
Freight Car Builders
- American Car and Foundry (ACF)
- Bethlehem Steel
- Fruit Growers Express
- Gunderson
- Magor
- Pacific Car and Foundry
- Pullman Standard
- Trinity Rail
Modeling Information – Make the most of your freight car fleet!
Regional – A look at freight cars in some of the places we’ve been.
- Cleveland
- Detroit
- Eastern Ohio
- Fort Worth
- Houston
- Indianapolis
- Milwaukee
- North Carolina Transportation Museum
- Philadelphia
- Sacramento
- San Diego
- San Francisco
- St. Louis
- York, Pennsylvania
Railroads – Freight cars were often part of a railroad’s character.
Fun Stuff that Just Didn’t Fit Anywhere Else!
- Beyond the Rails – Adaptive Reuse for Freight Cars
- “Black Friday” Freight Cars
- Fire on CN 137405
- Freight Car Mistakes
- “Green Freight” – The Efficiency of Rail
- Patriotic Freight Cars
- Railroad Advertising
- Train Wrecks
- Transcontinental Railroad Trains
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