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By mid-century, under the leadership of Richard L. Duchossois, the company focused on building specialized freight cars, such as high-cube boxcars for auto parts, all-door boxcars for building products, gondolas, rotary-dump gondolas for coal, bulkhead flatcars and centerbeam flatcars for lumber, double-stack container cars, covered hoppers ...
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.
COFC (container on flat car) cars are typically 89 feet (27.13 m) long and carry four 20-foot (6.10 m) intermodal containers or two 40-foot (12.19 m)/45-foot (13.72 m) shipping containers (the two 45-foot or 13.72-metre containers are carryable due to the fact that the car is actually 92 ft or 28.04 m long, over the strike plates).
United States Rolling Stock Company (1875–1893) Chicago Illinois [9] United States Railway Equipment (USRE) (1954–) Blue Island, Illinois [9] (to Evans) United Streetcar; US Car and Foundry; US Railcar; Vertex Railcar; Virginia Bridge & Iron Company (until 1920s) Roanoke, Virginia [9] Wagner Palace Car Company (1887–1900) Buffalo & New ...
A piano trolley or piano dolly is a two- or four-wheeled trolley featuring a stronger-than-usual frame. [4] They are typically measuring approximately 50 to 80 cm (19 + 5 ⁄ 8 to 31 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) long and are used by removals companies for moving pianos.
On Tuesday, construction workers used a monorail lift system to haul 3-ton, 20-foot prefabricated panels to the roof of the five-story bar, restaurant and entertainment complex.
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Wagon on North Beach circa 1892. Before the construction of the railroad a wagon like this one was the only way of access to the Long Beach peninsula north of Ilwaco. The initial owners of the company were Lewis Alfred Loomis, Jacob Kamm, I.W. Case, H.S. Gile, and B. A. Seaborg. L.A. Loomis was a pioneer on the Long Beach Peninsula.