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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 ...
Although Trinity began fabricating railway tank car bodies as a subcontractor to Richmond Tank Car and Union Tank Car as early as 1966, in 1978 Trinity began producing complete tank and covered hopper rail cars in association with Quick Car of Fort Worth, Texas, which Trinity later absorbed.
These early cars were volume-limited for less dense commodities like grain or sugar, so later designs include longer covered hopper cars with higher sides and three or more bottom bays. [9] Increasing axle load limits have allowed some of the heavier loads formerly assigned to two-bay hoppers to be assigned to larger, more efficient three-bay ...
DIFCO (originally Differential Steel Car Co.,) Findlay, Ohio (to Trinity) William Dyer; East Railcar; Eaton & Gilbert (1833–1893) Troy, New York [9] Ebenezer Railcar, Buffalo, New York; Edwards Rail Car Company (1921–1942) Edwards Rail Car Company (1997–2008) Elliott Car Company (c. 1885 – 1899) Gadsden, Alabama [9]
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Trinity Industries (NYSE: TRN) will permanently close a plant in Vidor, Texas, laying off 59 workers by April 30, according to a notice sent to state officials Tuesday. Company officials said the ...
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American Industrial Transport, a business formerly known as American Railcar Industries, is a specialist in railcar leasing and repair, [2] headquartered in Saint Charles, Missouri. AITX, both the name and primary railcar mark, leases railcars in the covered hopper and specialized tank car markets.