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A dock shunter, "dock tank", or "docksider", is a locomotive (formerly steam but now usually diesel) used for shunting wagons in the vicinity of docks. It is usually of 0-4-0 or 0-6-0 wheel arrangement and has a short wheelbase and large buffers. These features make it suitable for negotiating sharp curves.
They were assigned to the Baltimore, Maryland "Pratt Street Line" along the Inner Harbor, and to the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania waterfront trackage. Initially constructed as saddle tank engines, nos. 96 and 99 were given tenders in later years. After the saddle tank was removed in 1926 they were then given the classification of "C-16A" (Nos. 97 ...
Sebago is an American Maine-based company creating boating and deck shoes, as well as dress shoes.Sebago was founded in 1946. [1] In 2017, BasicNet acquired Sebago from Wolverine World Wide.
Released in 1995, the Volkswagen Caddy Typ 9K, or Volkswagen Polo Caddy, was a light van, designed by Volkswagen's Spanish subsidiary SEAT, and derived from the SEAT Ibiza 6K, on the Volkswagen Group A03 platform. The area of the cargo floor is 2.6 m 2 (28 sq ft), while the loading volume is 2.9 m 3 (102 cu ft). Typical payload is 550 kg (1,210 ...
The trolleys commonly have two parallel wheels on a hand truck style frame (with a handle and stand), but some designs have four or six wheels. In some countries the trolleys are traditionally regarded as being used by pensioner -age women, [ 5 ] [ 6 ] with granny cart being an American slang term for the four-wheeled wire-framed trolleys, [ 7 ...
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Traditional undershot waterwheels consisted of a series of flat blades fixed to the rim of a wheel. The blades were typically radial, i.e. mounted so that they pointed straight out along the radius of the wheel. When water from the headrace flowed past the wheel, it hit the blades, and some of its kinetic energy was converted into work by the ...
The Golf Specialist is a 1930 pre-Code comedy short subject from RKO Pictures, starring W. C. Fields.It was his first talkie.The film was shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey when many early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based there in the early part of the 20th century.