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2. Hoosier Racing Tire - Wikipedia

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   Hoosier Racing Tire was founded in 1957 in Lakeville, Indiana by stock car racer Robert Newton, and Joyce Newton. Newton wished to design a faster tire compound to gain an advantage against fellow racers. This was done by retreading street tires in order to obtain a compound that would adequately gain enough traction.

3. Micheline (railcar) - Wikipedia

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   Michelines offered unprecedented ride smoothness, but they soon proved to be problematic because the low load that the wheels could bear limited railcar sizes and demanded a high number of tyres (up to 20) per car. Furthermore, they were subject to flat tyres, unlike cars with steel wheels.

4. List of reporting marks: C - Wikipedia

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   CDHX - Caledonian Rail Lines, LLC; CDLZ - Cardinal Freight Carriers; CDNU - Carotrans International; CDPX - Chevron USA, Inc. CDTX - California Department of Transportation (Amtrak California) CDVX - Caddo Valley Railcar Repair, Inc. CEBX - Combustion Engineering, Inc. CEDR - Cedar River Railroad; CEFX - CIT Group/Capital Finance, Inc.

5. California Car (railcar) - Wikipedia

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   The cars were built in the mid-1990s for the Caltrans Division of Rail by Morrison–Knudsen and the American Passenger Rail Car Company (Amerail). The cars are similar in exterior dimensions to Amtrak's Superliner , but original in design to provide rolling stock suitable for California intercity services up to six hours, with more frequent ...

6. The Greenbrier Companies - Wikipedia

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   The Greenbrier Companies is an American publicly traded transportation manufacturing corporation based in Lake Oswego, Oregon, United States.Greenbrier specializes in transportation services, notably freight railcar manufacturing, railcar refurbishment and railcar leasing/management services.

7. Railway tire - Wikipedia

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   Steel tire on a steam locomotive's driving wheel is heated with gas flames to expand and loosen it so it may be slipped over the wheel.. The steel wheel of a steam locomotive and other older types of rolling stock were usually fitted with a steel tire (American English) or tyre (in British English, Australian English and others) to provide a replaceable wearing element on a costly wheel.

8. Budd–Michelin rubber-tired rail cars - Wikipedia

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   The Budd–Michelin rubber-tired rail cars were built by the Budd Company in the United States between 1931 and 1933 using French firm Michelin's "Micheline" rail car design. Michelin built its first rail car in 1929, and by 1932 had built a fleet of nine cars that all featured innovative and distinctive pneumatic tires .

9. TTX Company - Wikipedia

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   TTX was founded as TrailerTrain in 1955 by Norfolk & Western Railway, Pennsylvania Railroad, and Rail-Trailer Corporation. [2] Pennsylvania Railroad employees—6,000 in total—entered possible names in a drawing for the new company, and the name "Trailer Train" won. [3]