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Railroad car
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Railroad car
A
railroad car
or
railcar
(
American
and
Canadian English
),
railway wagon
or
railway carriage
(UK and
IUR
), 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
. Alternatively, some
passenger cars
are self-propelled in which case they may be either single
railcars
or make up
multiple units
.
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