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The state received $26,301 from the sale. That left three cars that were put up for auction online this fall. The buyer was a company that intends to scrap them, said NCDOT spokeswoman Lauren ...
List of British Rail Class 43 (HST) power cars. Class 43 (HST) is the TOPS classification used for the power cars of British Rail's InterCity 125 High Speed Train. The power cars were built by British Rail Engineering Limited between 1975 and 1982, and have been in service in the UK since 1976.
Edwards Rail Car Company. Edwards Rail Car Company was an American company which operated in Sanford, North Carolina, from 1921 to 1942. [1] It specialized in the manufacture of self-propelled rail cars. In 2000, the company name was resurrected by a company in Tavares, Florida, [2] which was later based in Montgomery, Alabama. [1]
M1/M3 (railcar) The M1 and M3 are two similar series of electric multiple unit rail cars built by the Budd Company for the Long Island Rail Road, the Metro-North Railroad, and Metro-North's predecessors, Penn Central and Conrail. [4] Originally branded by Budd as Metropolitans, the cars are more popularly known under their model names, M1 (late ...
Arrow I. A two-car set of Arrow I cars in Penn Central service at Harrison in 1969. The first series of Arrows (classed MA-1A or PRR MP85E6 [1]) were built in 1968–69 by the St. Louis Car Company; 35 were built and purchased by the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT). [2] These cars were initially numbered 100–134.
The Gallery Car is a bilevel rail car, originally created by the Pullman Company as the Pullman Gallery Car. It has had five total different manufacturers since its creation, including Budd, St. Louis Car Company, Amerail, Nippon Sharyo and Canadian Vickers. These double-decker passenger car were built by Pullman-Standard during the 1950s to ...
Edward's also restored and manufactured other types of rail cars, including streetcars. Rebirth of the Edwards Company came in the fall of 1997 when Vintage Rail Consultant Steven Torrico saw and rode on his first Edwards car, an ex-CB&Q Model-25. 2008 was the last year of manufacturing at the Montgomery facility.
A Schnabel car or Schnabel wagon is a specialized type of railroad freight car. It is designed to carry heavy and oversized loads in such a way that the load makes up part of the car. The load is suspended between the two ends of the cars by lifting arms; the lifting arms are connected to an assembly of span bolsters that distribute the weight ...