Learn the difference between these rail equipment types: auto rack, boxcar, centerbeam, covered hopper, coil car, flatcar, gondola, intermodal equipment, refrigerated boxcar, open-top hopper, tank car, well car. What it carries: Boxcars can carry a wide variety of crated or palletized freight, Perfect Steerable Transfer Cartluding paper, lumber, packaged goods, beverages and (shocker) boxes.