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tank car

rolling stock designed to transport liquid and gaseous commodities
Class type of: freight car, tanker vehicle Q1146040

Facts

5 properties
Instance of
type of rail vehicle
Subclass of
freight car, tanker vehicle[4][5]
Carries passengers or cargo
liquid, gas[7][8]
Physically interacts with
liquid, gas[2][3]
Time of discovery or invention
1865[6]
🏷️ Also known as
en tank car en tank wagon ar عربة صهريج cs kotlový vůz cs cisternový vůz de Zisternenwagen de Kesselwagen es vagón cisterna es vagon cisterna fi säiliövaunu fr wagon-citerne fr wagon-foudre hu tartálykocsi id gerbong tangki ja タンク車 ko 탱크차 ko 탱크카 nl ketelwagen pl cysterna kolejowa ru вагон-цистерна
🔖 Identifiers · 13
GND ID
4420824-8
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
TILX290344.JPG ↗
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
300212899
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
technology/tank-car
Freebase ID
/m/04fg1f
Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID
vagon-tsisterna-050505
Interlingual Index ID
i59987
KBpedia ID
TankerRailCar
Museum-digital tag ID
21244
Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging
12332
Topic's main category
Category:Tank railway wagons
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
04396608-n
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YSO ID
5481

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🔗 Connections
Carries passengers or cargo 2
gas, liquid
Physically interacts with 2
gas, liquid
Subclass of 1
freight car
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Summary

tank car is a type of rail vehicle[1].

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  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 25w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Tank railway wagons
    Carries passengers or cargo → liquid, gas
    Subclass of → freight car, tanker vehicle
    Instance of → type of rail vehicle
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed claim qualifiers: YSO ID: 5481, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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