Freight cars

Type Ibblps 379 Refrigerator Car

Prototype: Type Ibblps 379 two-axle refrigerator car with insulated, smooth side walls and an ice hatch with an icing platform at one end of the car. Privately owned car for the firm Union Deutsche Lebensmittelwerke GmbH / Union of German Food Processors, Inc., branch location in Mannheim, Germany, used on the German Federal Railroad (DB). The car looks as it did around 1973.

Type Zacns Tank Car

Prototype: Type Zacns four-axle tank car with a capacity of 95 cubic meters / 25,096 gallons. Privately owned car for Ermewa S.A.S., registered in the Czech Republic. Graphite gray basic paint scheme. The car looks as it did starting in 2015.

Petroleum Oil Tank Car

Prototype: Privately owned car painted and lettered for Esso, Inc.

Type Sggrss 80 Double Container Transport Car

Prototype: Type Sggrss 80 (DB Type Sggrss 733) 6-axle double container transport car with articulation, for combined load service. Light gray basic paint scheme. Privately owned car for the firm AAE Cargo AG, CH-Baar, Switzerland, leased to Locon Logistic and Consulting Inc., Oberuckersee, registered in Germany. Loaded with three 20-foot tank containers. The car looks as it currently does in real life.

Type Sggrss 80 Double Container Transport Car

Prototype: Type Sggrss 80 6-axle double container transport car with articulation, for combined freight service. Black basic paint scheme. Privately owned car for RailReLease B.V., Rotterdam, Netherlands, registered in the Netherlands. Loaded with two 40-foot box containers. The car looks as it did around 2016.

Type Sggrss 80 Double Container Transport Car

Prototype: Type Sggrss 80 6-axle double container transport car with articulation, for combined freight service. Black basic paint scheme. Privately owned car for RailReLease B.V., Rotterdam, registered in the Netherlands. Used for rail logistics. Loaded with a 40-foot high-cube box container and a normal height 40-foot box container. The car looks as it did in 2016.

Type Rilnss Sliding Tarp Car

Prototype: 4-axle type Rilnss sliding tarp car with a bluish gray tarp. European standard design with a length of 19.90 meters / 65 feet 3-7/16 inches. Privately owned car of ERR, Inc., registered in Luxembourg. The car looks as it did starting in 2014.

Type Res Low Side Car

Prototype: Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS) type Res four-axle low side car. European standard design with a length of 19.90 meters / 65 feet 3-7/16 inches. Loaded with two Swiss Army MB G 270 CDI "Serval" infantry vehicles. The car looks as it did in Era V.

Type Rilns Sliding Tarp Car

Prototype: Type Rilns four-axle sliding tarp car with a blue tarp. SBB/CFF/FFS Cargo sliding tarp car. European standard design with a length of 19.90 meters / 65 feet 3-7/16 inches. Version with rectangular buffers.

Type Sgnss Container Transport Car

Prototype: Type Sgnss four-axle container transport car for combined load service. Privately owned car painted and lettered for the firm Touax, registered in Germany. Loaded with two 20-foot box containers. The car looks as it did around 2014.

Boxcar

Prototype: Württemberg design boxcar. Privately owned car of G.C. Kessler & Co., Esslingen, Germany, used on the German State Railroad Company (DRG).

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Viva Magenta
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Boxcar

Prototype: German Federal Railroad (DB) type Gbkl 238 boxcar from the earlier Interchange Design type Gl "Dresden". Short version without hand brake, brakeman's platform, and brakeman's cab. Version without end wall doors. The car looks as it did around 1972.