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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.
Retired 5/31/1950 due to expired flue time. It was last operated 6/26/1950, for several hours, before leaking staybolts and a cracked flue sheet were discovered. Sold for scrap to J. Kerzman & Sons of Elizabeth, NJ who cut it up at Kenilworth, loaded it into two gondola cars, and shipped it to Bethlehem Steel Co. in Bethlehem, PA on 12/15/1951. 15
New features appear by the day: What began as a set of white metal legs just weeks ago now has a full wheel covered in color-changing lights and 36 enclosed gondola cars.
However, the build-up to World War II in the late 1930s revived the concern, and workers were called back to work. Employment reached 700 by the summer of 1940, and was producing 25 to 30 cars per day, and as many as 40 per day was possible. [2] After the war, however, demand for new freight cars plunged, since so many had been built during the ...
This 1962 Ford Seattle is among 100 concept car images that Ford Motor Co. just added to its online archive site. Images are now available to the public for free downloading.
Built up from Flatcar #496. Sold to Miles Canyon Historic Ry. Society in 2004. Society merged into the MacBride Museum in 2017. Car severely damaged by fire at Whitehorse in 2021. 1st 200 1st Lake Fraser (1946-1968) WP&YR 1902 Business car from 1902 to 1939. Passenger car from 1939 to 1954.
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 ...