Commons:Photo challenge/2025 - October - Freight cars

2025 – October – Freight cars

The new challenge features freight cars.

Ideally, each submission should contain a summary description of the subject in the file information, including the location of the subject, and relevant categories should be added to the files to enable other Commons users to find them and use them. Please take care not to violate copyright in respect of non-free creative works, and observe our educational project scope and the personality rights of identifiable people, or your files may be subject to deletion.

The challenge will remain open for submissions throughout October UTC.

Checklist for this theme:

• Photographs must be the work of the nominator.
• Photographs must be newly uploaded to Commons during the challenge submission period i.e. October 2025 UTC (but may have been taken earlier).
• Submissions must be added to the top of the "Entries" section below.
• Please do not nominate lots of similar photos; instead choose just your best and most varied images.

Add your entry between the <gallery> tags as indicated. Gallery entries are placed each on a new line, and consist of the filename, a vertical bar |, and a description. For example:

Electric steam iron.jpg|An electric steam iron

For help on the syntax of entries in a gallery see Help:Gallery tag. Please do not add square brackets [[ ]] or include a thumb parameter or the full URL. The File: prefix is not required, but harmless.

• Restriction: A maximum of four entries can be submitted per photographer.

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  Caboose historique of Canadian National Railway in Quebec City beside a bicycle path, which was a former railway.
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  Freight Train crossing Boisar railway station on Indian Railway's Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (WDFC)
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  display of gold transporting in Zhaoyuan, Shandong
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  Train - 2023-12-29 - 01
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  Taiwan Railways Administration's engineering maintenance vehicle
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  Güterwagen mit Grafitti im Hauptbahnhof Heidelberg, D
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  Freight truck as seen on highway
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  Covered freight truck
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  Freight trucks running on highway
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  Freight truck as seen from afar
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  Pacific National 8142 Locomotive
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  Carri merci lungo il Porto di Marina di Carrara
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  Güterwagen im Bahnhof Senden (Landkreis Neu-Ulm)
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  Historische Güterwagen beim Bahnhof in Seebrugg am Schluchsee
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  Экспонаты Музея железных дорог России в Санкт-Петербурге.
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  Freight transportation by road on open truck
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  Freight transportation by road on truck
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  Freight cars seen from far
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  Freight cars going by
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  Single Car Train In Cambodia
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  Wagon peint au Musée Street Art City à Lurcy-Lévis
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  Le train de la Rhune - Pyrénées
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  Wagon markings on a covered goods wagon (baggage car G10) belonging to the Deutsche Reichsbahn of the Cuckoo Railway
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  Märklin freight wagon model (Shimmns-tu 718) for strip steel coils of the DB Cargo
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  Märklin model of a Deutsche Shell AG mineral oil tank wagon
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  Märklin model of a covered goods wagon (Gmhs 54) of the Deutsche Bundesbahn
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  Old train carriage. NS D 6066. Undercarriage old train carriage NS D 6066.
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  Freight cars at the station in Lysá nad Labem, Czech Republic.
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  Nákladný vlak s vozňami rôznej farby rýchlo prechádzajúci po jednokoľajovke popri zastávke osobného vlaku.
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  Freight wagons of Taiwan Railway Corporation on the tracks of railway at Hualien railway station on a working day
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  Old tank car between two cabooses, which were coupled at the end of freight trains in North America to host the Crew; Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum, Nevada City, USA
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  Torpedo Ladle car made by Demag for Transportation of molten pig iron, Völklinger Hütte, Germany
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  Graffiti-covered freight wagon used for alternative purposes in the Godsbanen cultural quarter, Aarhus, Denmark
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  Open wagons with and without coal, Duisburg, Germany
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  The Grain Hopper of London, Ontario
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  Old train carriage. NS D 6066.
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  时代的交会
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  北京站旁，动车进站，photograph by Stanley Sun。
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  北京南站出站
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  Car carrier train, VR
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  Old train carriage. NS D 6066. Towing eye from old train carriage. NS D 6066.
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  catenary working car
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  Wagon Train à Vapeur de Martel (Lot)
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  Wagon Train à Vapeur de Martel (Lot)
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  Wagon Train à Vapeur de Martel (Lot)
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  Old tank car at Magdeburg, Germany
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  Freight cars of former German national railway system at Magdeburg
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  Hamburger Hafenbahn 40
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  Freight wagons of Taiwan Railway Corporation on the tracks of railway at Hualien railway station in the evening
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  historical covered freight wagon in Hamburg seaport
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  Old train carriage. NS D 6066. Coil springs old train wagon. NS D 6066.
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  flat wagon of Hamburg Metro
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  Auf Flachwagen aufgeladene Fahrwerke/Drehgestelle, Güterbahnhof Schorndorf
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  Zug- und Stoßeinrichtungen, Güterbahnhof Schorndorf
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  Bogie of a heavy torpedo car for transporting liquid iron of an iron plant, steel plant Völklingen, Saarbrücken, Germany
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  Tank cars on sidelines in freight station at Hohe-Schaar-Straße in evening leight, Hamburg, Germany
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  Freight car used to transport deportees to Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz II Birkenau (1940-1945); gatehouse in the background, Oświęcim, Poland
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  Door of a covered goods wagon, Keetmannshoop, Namibia
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  Ausgemustert - dennoch freie Fahrt
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  Museumsstück
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  Train Tracks by Riverside Drive During Hurricane Helene Flooding
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  Nákladné vozne na prepravu rôznych druhov materiálu a tovaru, fotené cez okno osobného vlaku idúceho okolo (Slovensko).
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  Tateyama Cable Car, Japan. The train consists of one freight car (in the foreground of the photo) and one passenger car.
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  Freight train near Eltmann
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  Various parked freight cars, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.
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  Parked red boxcar, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.
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  Intermodal containers on flat cars, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.
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  Tavaravaunut
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  Tavaravaunu
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  A Freight Car in Kolkata
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  Открытая грузовая платформа
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  Шасси типа Chanin для железнодорожных грузовых вагонов.
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  Современный вагон для перевозки грузов.
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  Современный вагон для перевозки грузов.
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  A passenger car on the Georgetown Loop Railroad in Colorado
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  Trem em Campos do Jordão no ano de 2021
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  VLT, Rio de Janeiro
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  Old Train Car, Uruguay, December 2023
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  Train Car, New York City subway
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  rusty skeleton car
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  Talbot bulk goods wagon, Behringersmühle. Fleet of the Frankenschweiz Museum Railway (Fränkische Schweiz steam railway)
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  old forgotten in field
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  Taganrog. Station "Taganrog-2"
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  Old gravel wagon of the former German national Railway system
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  Freight car for the transport of sea fish, Deutsche Reichsbahn, Magdeburg, Germany
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  Freight train wagon in Poland
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  Freight train wagon
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  Wagon - Muzeum Stutthof w Sztutowie
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  Covered Boxcar at Hualien Station in the evening
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  Грузовые поезда в России 2H1A5601WI
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  Грузовые поезда в России 2H1A5509WI
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  Грузовые поезда в России 2H1A5430WI
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  Old freight cars near Lake Doirani, Greece
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  Train de la baie de Somme
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  Freight cars of Tateyama Erosion Control Train, Japan. The line uses 610 mm narrow gauge.
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  New wagon ready to start it's journey
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  Assembly train at the construction site of the new Nuremberg-Ebensfeld line
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  JR Freight, Japan
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  Wasco tank wagon at Oldenburg, Germany.
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  Stanchion wagon at Harpstedt, Germany.
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  Hopper wagons at Oldenburg, Germany.
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  Maintenance train at Großenkneten, Germany.
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  Oil train
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  Old 5-ton railway crane
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  Narrow gauge railway in Sardinia
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  Part of an old train
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  Retired covered wagons on display
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  Freight cars scene of many types on the railways at Changhua railway station.
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