Rolling stock

Short description: Railway vehicles, powered and unpowered

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The term rolling stock in the rail transport industry refers to railway vehicles, including both powered and unpowered vehicles: for example, locomotives, freight and passenger cars (or coaches), and non-revenue cars. Passenger vehicles can be un-powered, or self-propelled, single or multiple units.[1][2][3][4]

In North America, Australia and other countries, the term consist (/ˈkɒnsɪst/ KON-sist) is used to refer to the rolling stock comprising a train, a list containing specific information for each car of a train, or a group of locomotives.[5][6]: 1‑129

In the United States, the term rolling stock has been expanded from the older broadly defined "trains" to include wheeled vehicles used by businesses on roadways.[7][8][9]

The word stock in the term is used in a sense of inventory. Rolling stock is considered to be a liquid asset, or close to it, since the value of the vehicle can be readily estimated and then shipped to the buyer without much cost or delay.[10][11] The term contrasts with fixed stock (infrastructure), which is a collective term for the track, signals, stations, other buildings, electric wires, etc., necessary to operate a railway.

## Contents

* 1 Manufacturers
* 2 Gallery
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## Manufacturers

A large number of companies and government agencies in many countries, past and present, have built rolling stock. The list of rolling stock manufacturers covers many of the largest ones.

## Gallery

* Variety of rolling stock in rail yard in Germany

* Steam and diesel locomotives

* Electric locomotive

* Diesel multiple unit (DMU)

* Electric multiple unit (EMU)

* Articulated diesel railcar

* Passenger cars, also called carriages or coaches

* Hopper car, one of many types of revenue freight cars

* Articulated well cars with intermodal containers

* European covered goods wagons

## See also

* Goods wagon
* List of rolling stock manufacturers
* List of railway vehicles
* Railroad car

## References

1. ↑ "Yaxham Light Railway rolling stock page". http://www.yaxham-light-railway.fsnet.co.uk/Rolling_Stock/rolling_stock.html.
2. ↑ "Definition of "rolling stock" from the Oxford English Dictionary accessed 5 February 2007 (subscription service)". http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50208215?single=1&query_type=word&queryword=rolling-stock&first=1&max_to_show=10.
3. ↑ "Definition of "rolling stock" from the Concise Oxford Dictionary". http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/rollingstock?view=uk.
4. ↑ "Definition from the American Heritage Dictionary". http://www.bartleby.com/61/0/R0290000.html.
5. ↑ "Railroading glossary". Kalmbach Media. 2014. http://trn.trains.com/Railroad Reference/Railroading Glossary.aspx?letter=C.
6. ↑ McAuliffe, Des (1999). "The Snowtown to Port Pirie line". Modelling the Railways of South Australia. Adelaide. https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/6937092.
7. ↑ "Rolling stock". Farlex. http://financial-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/rolling+stock.
8. ↑ Illinois Department of Revenue. "RUT-7: Rolling Stock Certification". http://tax.illinois.gov/taxforms/sales/vehicleusetax/rut-7.pdf.
9. ↑ "Michigan's Rolling Stock Exemption". Avalara. http://www.taxrates.com/blog/2016/01/12/michigans-rolling-stock-exemption/.
10. ↑ Finger, Matthias; Bert, Nadia; Kupfer, David, eds (2014). "Rail infrastructure and rolling stock: investments, asset renewal and regulation". European University Institute, Florence School of Regulation. pp. 8–9. http://fsr.eui.eu/Documents/WorkshopPaper/Transport/2014/140428InfrastructureRollingStockObserver.pdf.
11. ↑ Wijnia, Y.; de Croon, J.; Liyanage, J.P. (2014). "36: Application of a Unified Reference Model Across Asset Types: Comparative Cases". in Lee, Jay; Ni, Jun; Sarangapani, Jagnathan et al.. Engineering Asset Management 2011: Proceedings of the Sixth World Congress on Engineering Asset Management. London: Springer. pp. 416–417. ISBN 978-1-4471-4993-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=x-m7BAAAQBAJ&q="rolling+stock"+as+liquid+asset&pg=PA416.

## External links

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Rail transport freight rolling stock

Enclosed equipment|

* Autorack
* Boxcar (US)
* British Railway Milk Tank Wagon
* Cattle wagon
* Coil car
* Container
* Covered goods wagon
* Covered hopper
* Livestock wagon
* Milk car
* Refrigerator car (US)
* Refrigerated van (EU)
* Roadrailer
* Stock car
* Tank car
* Wagon with opening roof

Open equipment|

* Bogie bolster wagon
* Chauldron wagon
* Class U special wagon
* Conflat
* Double-stack car
* Flatcar (US)
* Flat wagon (EU)
* Gondola (US)
* Hopper car
* Mine car
* Minecart
* Mineral wagon
* Modalohr
* Open wagon (EU)
* Quarry tub
* Rollbock
* Rotary car dumper
* Schnabel car
* Slate waggon
* Specialized flatcars
* Transporter wagon

Non-revenue equipment|

* Ballast cleaner
* Brake van (EU)
* Caboose (US)
* Clearance car
* Crane
* Crew car
* Rotary snowplow
* Scale test car
* Stoneblower
* Tamping machine
* Track geometry car
* Work trains

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