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Effectively a boxcar without the wheels and chassis, a container is designed to be amenable to intermodal freight transport, whether by container ships, trucks or flatcars, and can be delivered door-to-door. Boxcars were used for bulk commodities such as coal, particularly in the Midwestern United States in the early 20th century. This use was ...
The Autocar Company is an American specialist manufacturer of severe-duty, Class 7 and Class 8 vocational trucks, with its headquarters in Birmingham, Alabama.Started in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in October 1897 as a manufacturer of early Brass Era automobiles, and trucks from 1899, Autocar is the oldest surviving motor vehicle brand in the Western Hemisphere.
History. It was founded as Brockway Carriage Works in 1875 by William Brockway. His son George Brockway later turned the carriages into a truck manufacturer in 1909. The first trucks were high-wheelers. During World War I, Brockway built 587 Class B Liberty Trucks for the military. After the war they produced a new range from 1-ton to 5-tons.
Auto-rack train car carries automobiles. A modern German autorack similar to the original design with a full load of automobiles. An autorack, also known as an auto carrier (also car transporter outside the US), is a specialized piece of railroad rolling stock used to transport automobiles and light trucks.
The new logo of the Hagerstown Flying Boxcars was meant to pay homage to the C-119 that was built in Washington County, as well as the community.
A "Victory Oil" semi-trailer truck from 1943. The trucking industry in the United States has affected the political and economic history of the United States in the 20th century. Before the invention of automobiles, most freight was moved by train or horse-drawn vehicle. During World War I, the military was the first to use trucks extensively.
From the 1950s onward, the general service (meaning used for a wide variety of shipments) boxcar fleet owned by American railroads significantly shrank. From a starting point of approximately 780,000 boxcars in the middle of the 1950s, boxcar inventory shrank to 637,000 by 1960 and 329,000 in 1973, a more than 50 percent decrease.
Built on a Nissan Diesel UG780, Toyota DA110/DA115 or Isuzu TX series 5-tonne truck chassis, [1] the Crocodile consisted of an open-topped hull or 'capsule' faceted at the sides, which were designed to deflect small-arms' rounds, and a flat bottom or 'deck' reinforced by a v-shaped 'crush box' meant to deflect landmine blasts. Three inverted U ...