Types of Rail Transport Carriers
Tank car
- Tank cars are designed to carry hazardous and non-hazardous, low, medium and high pressure liquid and gaseous bulk commodities.
Large Covered Hopper
- All steel large covered hoppers are designed for carrying plastic resin pellets.
Medium Covered Hopper
- Medium, all steel Covered Hoppers are designed for carrying dry bulk loads which require protection from the weather, such as corn, soybeans and meal, wheat, other grains, and other products.
Specialty wagons
- These are wagons made to suit customer requirements.
Intermodal Wagons
- These are modern, single platform railcars designed for 53’ containers.
Mill Gondola
- Mill gondolas are available to meet the needs of those wishing to ship scrap steel and other commodities unaffected by weather.
Boxcar
- These cars are designed to service appliance, paper, auto parts, construction material, consumer goods and other shipments.
Covered Coil.
- There are two choices of covered coil gondolas built for coils of finished steel; a transverse trough coil car as well as a longitudinal trough design.
Small Covered Hopper
- Small Covered Hoppers are all steel, and are designed for carrying dry bulk loads which require protection from the weather, including cement, sand, roofing granules, and other materials.