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A flatcar (US) (also flat car, [1] or flatbed) is a piece of rolling stock that consists of an open, flat deck mounted on trucks (US) or bogies (UK) at each end. Occasionally, flat cars designed to carry extra heavy or extra large loads are mounted on a pair (or rarely, more) of bogies under each end.
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.
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Additional car types manufactured included boxcars and gondolas. Most cars were designed for standard gauge interchange service on AAR-approved railroads within North America. Many tri-level autoracks built by Thrall exist today, identifiable by the blue Thrall rectangle logo present on either the extreme right or left end of the car side.
A railroad car, railcar (American and Canadian English), [a] railway wagon, railway carriage, railway truck, railwagon, railcarriage or railtruck (British English and UIC), also called a train car, train wagon, train carriage or train truck, is a vehicle used for the carrying of cargo or passengers on a rail transport network (a railroad/railway).
In 1959, when 85 ft (25.91 m) flat cars capable of carrying two 40-foot (12.19 m) highway trailers in trailer-on-flatcar (TOFC), or "piggyback" service were introduced, new automobiles began to be shipped by rail loaded on highway auto-carrier trailers. Eight to ten autos could be carried per flat car in this manner.
Self Powered Flat Cars #5066, 5067, 5068. Relco Locomotives Work Train 2019–2023 Three diesel locomotives and 14 flatcars with overall 800 ft (240 m) length for Transbay Tube refit project. [80] Each locomotive has a limited weight of 132,000 pounds. All 17 cars sold and left Bay Area to Ozark Mountain Railcar in 2022.
01–06 (unpowered flat cars) [2] 31–36 (track ballast gondola cars) 41–42 (powered yard shunting flat cars) [3] 51 (supply car) 56 (pump car) Magor Car Corporation: 1931–1932 Retired, pump car 56 & flat car 41 preserved R4 (R5) Passenger cars (R5 was the truck/motor package for R4) 400–899 American Car & Foundry 1932–1933
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