Freight Train Cars

Enthusiast Color

by Mike Schafer, Mike McBride

In the world of railway enthusiasts and modelers, freight carriers are every bit as technically involved and evocative as engines and cabooses. This full-color gallery features and describes a trainload of "rolling stock" - boxcars, flatcars, hoppers, gondolas, tank cars, auto-rack transports and others - representing a variety of railways in action around the US.

96 pages, Paperback

First published September 26, 1999

Reviews

[M.J. Rodriguez]

This is not an in-depth look at freight train cars, but rather a celebration of the many gondolas, flat cars, boxcars, tank cars, livestock and refrigerator cars that have rolled on America's network of railroads during the 20th century.