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2. Double-stack rail transport - Wikipedia

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   A container train passing through Jacksonville, Florida, with 53 ft (16.15 m) containers used for shipments within North America. Double-stack rail transport is a form of intermodal freight transport in which railroad cars carry two layers of intermodal containers. Invented in the United States in 1984, it is now being used for nearly seventy ...

3. Car carrier trailer - Wikipedia

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   A car carrier trailer, also known as a car-carrying trailer, car hauler, or auto transport trailer, is a type of trailer or semi-trailer designed to efficiently transport passenger vehicles via truck. Modern car carrier trailers can be open or enclosed. Most commercial trailers have built-in ramps for loading and off-loading cars, as well as ...

4. Flatcar - Wikipedia

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   A Trailer-on-flat-car, or piggy-back car allows two 28.5-foot (8.69 m) trailer pups or one semi-trailer up to 57 feet (17.37 m) to be carried. Like well cars, these usually come in articulated sets of five or three. A longer TOFC (trailer on flat car) is usually an 89 ft (27.13 m) car.

5. Well car - Wikipedia

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   Well car. 40 foot containers in well cars on the BNSF line through La Crosse. A well car, also known as a double-stack car (or also intermodal car / container car), is a type of railroad car specially designed to carry intermodal containers (shipping containers) used in intermodal freight transport. The "well" is a depressed section that sits ...

6. Trailer (vehicle) - Wikipedia

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   In the United States, a single trailer cannot exceed a length of 57 ft 0 in (17.37 m) on interstate highways (unless a special permit is granted), although it is possible to link two smaller trailers together to a maximum length of 63 ft 0 in (19.20 m). Semi-trailers vary considerably in design, ranging from open-topped grain haulers through ...

7. Semi-trailer truck - Wikipedia

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   Conventional style cab tractor A cab over semi-tractor Tractor with an end-dump trailer A FAW semi-trailer truck in China A semi-trailer truck (also known by a wide variety of other terms - see below) is the combination of a tractor unit and one or more semi-trailers to carry freight. A semi-trailer attaches to the tractor with a type of hitch called a fifth wheel. Other terms There are a wide ...

8. Trailer-on-flatcar - Wikipedia

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   Trailer on flatcar, also known as TOFC or piggyback, is the practice of carrying semi-trailers on railroad flatcars. TOFC allows for shippers to move truckloads long distances more cheaply than can be done by having each trailer towed by a truck, since one train can carry more than 100 trailers at once. [1] The trailers will be moved by truck ...

9. Driving Van Trailer - Wikipedia

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   A Driving Van Trailer (DVT) is a British purpose-built control car railway vehicle that allows the driver to operate with a locomotive in push-pull formation from the opposite end of a train. A key benefit of operating trains with DVTs is the requirement for fewer locomotives; for example, a second locomotive would otherwise have to join at the ...