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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.
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The I-SPY books are a series of around forty small volumes that have sold hundreds of thousands of copies each, totalling sales of 25 million worldwide by 2010. [1] Each book in the I-Spy series covers a different subject, such as I-SPY Cars, I-SPY on the Pavement, I-SPY Churches, I-SPY on a Train Journey, and so on.
Metal Gear robotic war engines - Metal Gear; BattleMechs - bipedal walker battle robots from BattleTech game series. Titans, smaller Imperial Knights and their counterparts of other races - Warhammer 40000; Heavy Gears - bipedal warsuits from a Heavy Gear science fiction game universe; Dreadnought - Warhammer 40k
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 ...
Christopher Awdry wrote his first book in 1983, and 13 further books followed between 1984 and 1996. No books were published between 1996 and 2007; book 40: New Little Engine, and the original books from The Railway Series went out-of-print. This was a source of friction between the Awdry family and the publishers.
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