Everyday l spend a lot of my time at the train station waiting for trains and watching passing trains, l have always wondered what is in the huge freight trains that whizzz past if anyone knows could they please let me know? Thank you xx

Nuclear waste.

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Chalk Tippler and Iron Ore.

All sorts is carried by rail nowadays. If you tell us which station you use, we may be able to help you more

Rail is usually a bulk handler. Trains carry coal, stone, cement, containers (containing virtually anything), iron ore, oil, etc.

usually bulk materials that are safe to transport by rail.you would not see tvs or anything that would be easy to steal .

What else but freight ? Not bananas as they all go by sea. Most freight is made of gravel.

Almost every thing but not people.

freight trains carry food and goods from state to state !!!

Automobiles, Bananas, (yes bananas) Coal, Diesel fuel, Electronics (TVs too) Fuel, Grain, Hardware, Ingots, Jet airplane parts, Lumber, Motor oil, Nuclear waste, Oxygen, Produce, Quartz, Rail, Steel, Timber, Underwear (clothing), Volkswagons, Wire, Xray equipment,Yamahas, Zoology books

you name it, we ship it, yep, nuculear waste too.
Even people, the occassional hobo.

They want you to think it is freight. But l know the truth it is creatures from outer space. l was in Roswell back in the day l saw what l saw.

According to the Department of Homeland Security and the railroads l am not allowed to tell you specifics but if you see products for sale some ware more in likely it was hauled in a train

Mostly depends on which lines u r travelling on in my area its all containers to & from the docks coming & going world wide..
When l lived in Northamptonshire mainly coal waggons..When the Midlands was the hub of car manufacturing a lot of car transporters heading to the docks,the only mass transporters l can think of that donot make the use of rail as they should r the supermarkets,
If u travel the A1 on a Sunday travelling south the road is full of Tescos,Morrisons,Asda

freight trains carry lots of things coal, stone, cars, steel, and containers with food inside them, cement, mail, china clay, scrap iron, and freight trains do the work that would take many lorries to do and have a lower carbon emission

Freight trains carry all kinds of general freight materials such as lumber in lumber carrying flat cars, scrap metal in gondola cars, new vehicles in covered flat cars, coal in coal hopper cars, and just about anything you can think of. Now this is just my own little opinion, but l think a freight train is not a complete freight train without a caboose.

You can look at the kind of car & get a good idea.

Flatcars, u can see what is on them.

Gondolas (very short walls) - usually contain steel scraps or machinery. You can often see over the top of them.

Huge cars with tin (shiny) sides with holes in them contain brand new automobiles.

Funny flat cars with a wall down the middle of the car & straps everywhere - r for hauling lumber, like what u see at Home Depot.

Covered hopper cars -- contain dried grains like corn, or plastic pellets for making plastic products, or cement for making concrete. Among others.

Open hopper cars - contain generally coal or gravel (used for the railroad track). Very short covered hoppers probably contain iron ore.

Tank cars - could be any liquid or gas. Look for diamond shaped ''placards'' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placard that will give u a rough idea of what is in them. If u do not see a placard, then most likely it is corn sweetener (high fructose corn syrup) or vegetable oil or some other foodstuff or non-flammable. If you're in corn country & it has a placard, it may be ethanol!

if the ends of the tank car r rounded, it contains a gas under pressure like ammonia, propane or compressed natural gas.

Boxcars can contain darn near anything! If the boxcar is extremely large, it most likely contains auto parts.

Many railcars r designed to carry highway semi-truck trailers or seagoing containers. Some of these cars can be very empty frames. In America, container cars stack the containers two-high! Of course, trailers & containers can contain anything from furniture to garbage.

In a few places, u will see a train that IS highway trailers, nothing but a very long line of highway trailers. That is called a RoadRailer. Those r something special. Most likely, those contain auto parts.

Notice there r three different kinds of freight cars specifically for autos & auto parts?

Pretty much anything you own(or the materials to make those products), the car you drive, the lumber that your house was built with, the coal to produce the electricity you use, etc, has most likely at some point been transported on a train.

The Railway Children

Anything that you can carry in a truck.

There r 2 types of freight: ''Perishables'' & ''Bulk''.

Perishables r electronics, car parts, food, etc. that r carried in containers or specialist vehicles for loose valuable goods or food.

Bulk goods r such loose materials as spoil, gravel, coal, cars, etc. that r carried in open wagons that need no cover (as such).

Of course, the exception to this r ''piggyback'' or trains like ''Le Shuttle'' - these r classified, technically, under bulk goods but r normally carried in trains that go at passenger train speeds.

Wille Nelson? Seriously, l bet there is some Hobo is in there somewhere!

And every type of thing you find in a store, it probably went by truck or rail at some point!

Freight, dear. Oddly enough milk floats usually carry milk, and our local mobile fish van carries fish.
Now go and have a lie down.

Freight train or goods train is a series of freight cars hauled by a locomotive on a railway, ultimately transporting cargo between two points as part of the logistics chain. Trains may haul bulk, containers or specialized cars.

Under the right circumstances, freight transport by rail is more economic & energy efficient than by road, especially when carried in bulk or over long distances. Rail freight is often subject to transshipment costs since it must be transferred from one mode to another in the chain; these costs may dominate & practices such as containerization aim at minimizing these. Bulk is less susceptible, with distances down to thirty kilometers (twenty miles) sufficient to cover transshipment costs. Freight trains r less flexible than road transport, & much freight has been transferred from rail to road or sea.

freight trains transport nearly everything as its an easy and cheaper way to do so than road and faster, most of the things what do get transported is haz goods etc etc they do alot for shiping as well

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