Originally posted by BirdDude007: out here in the West I have always seen the car carriers like the ones in my pics, fully enclosed....
Fair enough! In Australia, the only cars I've seen on trains have been "motorail" arrangements where you travel on a passenger train which has a couple of carriages for the cars. They were either flatbeds or double-decker arrangements like a car trailer on a semi.
Large numbers of cars are carried by sea, and small numbers by truck - for example when delivering them to dealerships in the countryside.