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A gondola car built by the South Australian Railways in the 1920s to an American Car and Foundry design. In North American railroad terminology, [note 1] a gondola car or gondola is typically an open-topped railroad car used for transporting loose bulk materials, although general freight was also carried in the pre-container era.
Prior to the invention of this type of coil car, coils of sheet metals were carried on-end or in cradles in open or covered gondolas. Load shifting, damage, and awkward loading and unloading were all problems, and since so much sheet metals are railroad-transported, a specialized car was designed for transporting coiled metals.
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 ...
A rotary car dumper or wagon tippler (UK) is a mechanism used for unloading certain railroad cars such as hopper cars, gondolas or mine cars (tipplers, UK). It holds the rail car to a section of track and then rotates the track and car together to dump out the contents. Used with gondola cars, it is making open hopper cars obsolete.
The Railgon Company, (reporting marks GONX, GNTX) established in 1979, is an American company that owns railroad gondola cars available for use by multiple railroads by placing the cars in a cooperative pool. [1] Shipments in gondola cars and other rolling stock are often used to transport goods on more than one railroad before reaching the ...
An aerial lift, [1] also known as a cable car or ropeway, is a means of cable transport in which cabins, cars, gondolas, or open chairs are hauled above the ground by means of one or more cables. Aerial lift systems are frequently employed in a mountainous territory where roads are relatively difficult to build and use, and have seen extensive ...
Riders are loaded into a gondola type car near ground level at the station and secured with over-the-shoulder harnesses. The gondola is then moved backwards horizontally to the rear base of the lift tower and then climbs vertically to the top of the tower in 7.2 seconds. Once there, it slides forward and hangs over the drop track for a few seconds.
National Steel Car has focused on freight car production since the 1960s and was the second largest car builder in 1950s. Boxcar - super duty and jumbo; Coil car - Longitudinal and transverse coil cars; Flat car - including Centre beam cars; Gondola car - including coal car; Hopper car - covered and open top