УДК 629.463.65.001.63 This article represents the features of perspective streams of gondola’s carcasses engineering. <...> Railway transport is the basic industry of the national economy of Ukraine, and the basis of its transportation system which provides more than two-thirds of the total freight turnover. <...> Therefore, the theses of the Transport Strategy of Ukraine till 2020 (adopted at the meeting of Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on 20th of October 2010) and a Comprehensive program of renovation of railway rolling stock of Ukraine on 2008-2020 years (adopted by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on 14th of October 2008 № 1259) determine that one of the most important guidelines for this industry is development and operation of freight wagons of our country with modern techno-economic parameters. <...> The gondola’s park is the most common and demanded. <...> Thereby carriage builders and specialized engineering organizations of our countries start up the research and experimental activities in order to create their own engineering design of gondolas which will successfully compete with foreign counterparts. <...> In general we can pick out the following systems [1, 2]: chassis, brake, automatic coupling. <...> With a total consideration of the freight car the following main system [1, 2]: chassis, brake, automatic couplers and body (body combines modules and frames). <...> But the analysis of specialized research and reference sources testify that there is no content-date information for the integrated treatment of directions of gondola design support systems of the new generation. <...> Based on that we can resume that identification of perspective streams of gondolas engineering and development of the ways to implement them is a complex and challenging scienti f ic and practical problem, which hasn’t been dealed with enough. <...> THE PURPOSE OF THE ARTICLE AND THE PRESENTATION OF THE MATERIAL The article presents the perspective directions of gondola carcasses engineering and their features. <...> According to the proposed and presented in fig. the general methodology of modern engineering of gondola carcasses, depending on the priority of requirements for products we can pick out the following streams: – engineering-oriented; – technology-oriented; – resource-oriented. <...> Under engineering-oriented way the priority claims are specific and structural conditions that provide the most effective performance of its functions. <...> The key requirements of such streams include: 76 Проблемы машиностроения и автоматизации, № 2 <...>