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The wagons numbered 381-637 are a curiosity, because from 1982 to 1984 an improved design of wagon was released to service, known as the VHHY. These wagons were about 2 ft (0.61 m) longer and had an extra 10-long-ton (10.2 t; 11.2-short-ton) capacity over their predecessors, being able to carry 65 long tons (66.0 t; 72.8 short tons) each.
These modified open wagons were recoded to HZ. Between 1961 and 1966, these wagons were progressively recoded to HY. The numbers for the HZ group were between 6 and 804. As HY wagons, they were converted to GY wagons in the 1966/67 program. These wagons were incorporated into the GY number block 911 to 1160 along with other IZ conversions. [16]
The Victorian Railways used a variety of former traffic wagons around depots and for specific construction, maintenance and similar tasks. Very few of these vehicles were specially constructed from scratch, often instead recycling components or whole wagon bodies and frames from old vehicles that had been withdrawn from normal service as life-expired or superseded by a better design.
Wagons had a tare weight of just over 21 tons, and a load capacity of 50 tons. [196] In the late 1970s, the NSW and Victorian Railways finally organised a contract for the transport of slab steel from Port Kembla, south of Sydney, to Hastings, south of Melbourne, replacing vessels running around the coastline. [197]
The wagons fitted with aligned bogies were coded BMF, to indicate "medium" size distinct from the "long" wagons outlined below. BMF 2-11 were ex the 1960 batch of BB's, 222-231, all in 1961, and additional wagons were converted from BP between 1962 and 1965, with the final fleet being BMF 1-17, 21-38, 44-46, 48-49, 53, 58, 63, 72-73, 75, 98 ...
Once owned by a York Springs family, a two-century-old Conestoga Wagon was moved into the new York County History Center building.
From 1965, the wagons had bogies altered for higher speed trains, and so the wagons were reclassed MF. This lasted until the 1979 recoding, by which time only wagons 2–5, 10, 15, 20-22 and 25 remained. These 10 wagons were reclassed to VSBY, indicating that they were not bogie-exchangeable. The wagons were removed from service in the mid-1980s.
The history of mobile food in America dates back to the 17th century and has some surprising (and yummy) turns along the way. Related: 45 Food Trucks Worth Following in Every Major City Digital ...