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A lifted Ford F-450 "rolling coal" (blowing large clouds of dark grey diesel smoke) Rolling coal (also spelled rollin' coal) is the practice of modifying a diesel engine to deliberately emit large amounts of black or grey diesel exhaust, containing soot and incompletely combusted diesel. Rolling coal is used as a form of anti-environmentalism ...
Within a given country, different notations may also be employed for different kinds of locomotives, such as steam, electric, and diesel powered. Especially in steam days, wheel arrangement was an important attribute of a locomotive because there were many different types of layout adopted, each wheel being optimised for a different use (often ...
An RCH 1927 specification tank, registered with the LMS for working on the main line. It was donated by Shell to the Dart Valley Railway in 1970 and painted as Shell Mex number 4492 but currently (2022) carries National Benzole livery and the number 114. [77] [78] 146 GWR Tool Van 1908 [79] 334 PO: Bogie Well Wagon: Unknown
Cart from 16th century, found in Transylvania A dumper minecart used in the Basque Country, currently at the Minery Museum.. A minecart, mine cart, or mine car (or more rarely mine trolley or mine hutch) is a type of rolling stock found on a mine railway, used for transporting ore and materials procured in the process of traditional mining.
This was the first long-distance diesel express service in Britain, and covered the 117.5 miles (189.1 km) miles between Birmingham and Cardiff in 2 hours 20 minutes. This was intended as a businessman's service; fares were charged at the normal rate, although bookings were limited by the 44 seats of the railcar. [3]
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A turntable for the Central Railroad of New Jersey. Turnplates at the Park Lane goods station of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1831. Early wagonways were industrial railways for transporting goods—initially bulky and heavy items, particularly mined stone, ores and coal—from one point to another, most often to a dockside to be loaded onto ships. [4]