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A gondola car built by the South Australian Railways in the 1920s to an American Car and Foundry design. In North American railroad terminology, [note 1] a gondola car or gondola is typically an open-topped railroad car used for transporting loose bulk materials, although general freight was also carried in the pre-container era.
Prior to the invention of this type of coil car, coils of sheet metals were carried on-end or in cradles in open or covered gondolas. Load shifting, damage, and awkward loading and unloading were all problems, and since so much sheet metals are railroad-transported, a specialized car was designed for transporting coiled metals.
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New features appear by the day: What began as a set of white metal legs just weeks ago now has a full wheel covered in color-changing lights and 36 enclosed gondola cars.
With the increase in power of steam locomotives, the old wood freight cars could not take the strain, and demand for Ralston's all-steel cars exploded. By 1907, expansion of the Rarig facility began with the construction of a 1,400-foot (430 m) long Punch, Shear Fitting and Erection Shop. By 1910, a wide variety of cars were being produced.
Gondola (US) A gondola car A type of rolling stock with a flat bottom and relatively low sides, used to haul material such as ore or scrap, and loaded and unloaded from the top which may be covered or uncovered [125] [128] Green and Cream (Cream and Green) BNSF's post-Burlington Northern green-and-white livery Green Goat
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Retired 5/31/1950 due to expired flue time. It was last operated 6/26/1950, for several hours, before leaking staybolts and a cracked flue sheet were discovered. Sold for scrap to J. Kerzman & Sons of Elizabeth, NJ who cut it up at Kenilworth, loaded it into two gondola cars, and shipped it to Bethlehem Steel Co. in Bethlehem, PA on 12/15/1951. 15