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Flat wagons for carrying timber: the Class Snps 719 (front) and the Class Roos-t 642 (behind). Flat wagons (sometimes flat beds, flats or rail flats, US: flatcars), as classified by the International Union of Railways (UIC), are railway goods wagons that have a flat, usually full-length, deck (or 2 decks on car transporters) and little or no superstructure.
A 1918 Walker Electric panel van is displayed at the Thor Electric Truck company in Los Angeles. [ 5 ] The Dwinell-Wright Company in Boston, Massachusetts employed a Walker Electric Truck from 1914 through 1960 to move freight—primarily green coffee beans—from the docks to their South Boston warehouse.
A railroad car, railcar (American and Canadian English), [a] railway wagon, railway carriage, railway truck, railwagon, railcarriage or railtruck (British English and UIC), also called a train car, train wagon, train carriage or train truck, is a vehicle used for the carrying of cargo or passengers on a rail transport network (a railroad/railway).
HkB 600 were electric teak wagons formerly used on the Oslo Metro of Oslo, Norway. 12 double-car multiple units were built by Skabo Jernbanevognfabrikk and AEG from 1951 to 1956. Each train was 14.45 metres (47.4 ft) long, and could carry 40 standing and 120 seated passengers. [1] Maximum speed was 60 kilometres per hour (37 mph).
The steel body was efficient to mass-produce, easier to maintain and safer than the real wood-bodied station wagon versions at the time. [9] Within the first two years of the Jeep Wagon's production, the only manufacturer in the United States with a station wagon that was comparable in price was Crosley, [10] which introduced an all-steel wagon ...
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The Liverpool Overhead Railway opened in 1893 with two-car electric multiple units, [2] controllers in cabs at both ends directly controlling the traction current to motors on both cars. [ 3 ] The multiple unit traction control system was developed by Frank Sprague and first applied and tested on the South Side Elevated Railroad (now part of ...
The EVcort was an experimental electric car produced from 1981 to 1994 by Electric Vehicle Associates of Cleveland, Ohio, and later by Soleq Corp. of Chicago, Illinois. [1] It consisted of a stock body and transmission from the Ford Escort , refitted with an electric propulsion system, every component of which was engineered and manufactured ...