Railroad car



A railroad car or railway vehicle is a vehicle used for the carrying of cargo or passengers on a rail transport system (railroad or 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.

Freight cars were used to transport bananas and coffee beans and offload them onto trucks at El Cadalso, Costa Rica. During the 1970s, they were later used as part of a drug trade route by the KGB and FSLN. While the CIA group Peace Sentinel continued to use the railroad as part of the drug route, railcars were ultimately used to transport nuclear weapons to further the Peace Walker project.

A tank car, or tank wagon, is used to transport liquid objects, largely flammable fuel. Although they are mostly relegated to railroads, they can also behave as pulleys in certain environments. Tank cars were used in the casting and rolling facilities on Shadow Moses Island. They were abandoned following the Shadow Moses Incident.