Freight railcars

As a freight railcar or freight motor vehicles are motor coaches a railway or tramway designated for the carriage of goods are determined. Unlike passenger railcars, they are very rare because a high payload is desirable when transporting goods ; however, a drive installed in the same vehicle is at the expense of the payload. Special forms of freight railcars are baggage railcars or mail railcars . Freight railcars also often serve as towing cars for other freight cars .

In the past, railcars were mainly used on small and branch lines, especially on electrified lines . Examples of this are the freight railcars of the Lokalbahn Aktien-Gesellschaft ( LAG No. 891 and LAG No. 895 ) as well as the E 21 and E 22 of the Extertalbahn that have been preserved to this day . Sometimes they could also be found as freight trams in city traffic, for example in Hanover .

Examples of modern freight railcars:

• The CargoSprinter from Deutsche Bahn AG
• The m250 series Japanese Japan Freight Railway Company
• The CarGoTram that for Volkswagen on the network of streetcar Dresden wrong
• The general cargo railcar Dhe 2/4 3015 of the Gornergratbahn for supply trips to the mountain restaurants and hotels

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  Open freight railcar with a central driver's cab of the Herkulesbahn

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  Open freight railcar with two driver's cabs on Wiener Linien

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  Closed two-axle freight railcar of the Hanover tram

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  Enclosed four-axle goods railcar E21 of the Extertalbahn

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  Multi-part CarGoTram multiple unit in Dresden