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An axlebox, also known as a journal box in North America, is the mechanical subassembly on each end of the axles under a railway wagon, coach or locomotive; it contains bearings and thus transfers the wagon, coach or locomotive weight to the wheels and rails; the bearing design is typically oil-bathed plain bearings on older rolling stock, or roller bearings on newer rolling stock.
Forage harvesters can be implements attached to a tractor, [4] or they can be self-propelled units. In either configuration, they comprise a drum (cutterhead) or a flywheel [5] with a number of knives fixed to it that chops and blows the silage out of a chute of the harvester into a wagon that is either connected to the harvester or to another vehicle driving alongside.
The auctioneer would give Texas the first chance the buy the used border wall materials, should they go back up for sale, Patrick wrote. "Governor (Greg) Abbott and I stand ready to buy them if ...
If the wagons are swung out of the way by an overhead hoist, they may sway, which wastes time settling them down. The Nutter hoist, patented in 1871, used screw jacks to lift cars off of their bogies. [1] The Imboden railway-car lifter, from 1875, used a steam cylinder to wedge the car into the air. [2]
Hbillns wagon with sliding sides in ITL’s green livery Commonwealth Oil Corporation goods wagon in Australia. Goods wagons or freight wagons [1] (North America: freight cars), [2] also known as goods carriages, goods trucks, freight carriages or freight trucks, are unpowered railway vehicles that are used for the transportation of cargo.
Narrow covered wagon used by west-bound Canadian settlers c. 1885 Painting showing a wagon train of covered wagons. A covered wagon, also called a prairie wagon, whitetop, [1] or prairie schooner, [2] is a horse-drawn or ox-drawn wagon used for passengers or freight hauling. It has a canvas, tarpaulin, or waterproof sheet which is stretched ...
Also in O Gauge First Class Kits have produced a kit of one of the Presflo wagons used for fly ash, [17] and Just Like The Real Thing have produced an O gauge kit of a diagram 1/272 Presflo. A 00 gauge plastic kit was produced by Airfix between 1960 and 1964, and was re-released between 1975 and 1979.
Case constructed his first portable steam engine in 1869, an engine used to power wheat threshers. This engine is in the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C. Case won first place at the 1878 Paris Exposition in France for his thresher [citation needed]. This was the first thresher sent abroad by the Case company and was the first of thousands ...