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Throughout railroad history, many manufacturing companies have come and gone. This is a list of companies that manufactured railroad cars and other rolling stock . Most of these companies built both passenger and freight equipment and no distinction is made between the two for the purposes of this list.
In comparison with the existing state railway wagons, the cradle wagon (Drehschemelwagen), Class A5, had a longer wheelbase of 4,500 mm and was a new design. These wagons, used for the transport of timber, had eight stanchions and a rotating cradle that pivoted on a flat steel ring in the floor of the flat bed. All wagons built between 1913 and ...
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A Class Ow goods wagon on the Saxon narrow gauge railways with Heberlein brakes Open wagon for peat, 750 mm (2 ft 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) . An open wagon (or truck in the UK) forms a large group of railway goods wagons designed primarily for the transportation of bulk goods that are not moisture-retentive and can usually be tipped, dumped or shovelled.
After 65 years and 807 issues, it ceased in November 1959 being incorporated into sister Ian Allan Publishing publication Trains Illustrated in January 1960 which in turn became Modern Railways in January 1962. [1] It primarily focused on new railway locomotives and rolling stock with a combination of news and reviews.
Hbillns wagon with sliding sides in ITL’s green livery Commonwealth Oil Corporation goods wagon in Australia. Goods wagons or freight wagons [1] (North America: freight cars), [2] also known as goods carriages, goods trucks, freight carriages or freight trucks, are unpowered railway vehicles that are used for the transportation of cargo.
The Burton Stock Car Company's design provided sufficient space so as to allow the animals to lie down in transit on a bed of straw. In 1880, American railroads rostered around 28,600 stock cars. With the innovations developed by Mather, Hicks and others, this number nearly doubled in 1890 to 57,300, and was nearly tripled in 1910 to 78,800. [ 14 ]
The German State Railway Wagon Association could, unlike the Prussian State Railway Wagon Association, stipulate standard wagon designs for the whole of Germany. It developed a total of eleven different wagon types, the Verbandsbauart (literally: association type) or DWV wagons. In addition to entire goods wagons, types of bogie were also ...