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2. List of rolling stock manufacturers - Wikipedia

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   United States Rolling Stock Company (1875–1893) Chicago Illinois [9] United States Railway Equipment (USRE) (1954–) Blue Island, Illinois [9] (to Evans) United Streetcar; US Car and Foundry; US Railcar; Vertex Railcar; Virginia Bridge & Iron Company (until 1920s) Roanoke, Virginia [9] Wagner Palace Car Company (1887–1900) Buffalo & New ...

3. Loading gauge - Wikipedia

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   The prevalence of excess-height rolling stock, at first ~18 ft (5.49 m) piggybacks and hicube boxcars, then later autoracks, airplane-parts cars, and flatcars for hauling Boeing 737 fuselages, as well as 20 ft 3 in (6.17 m) high double-stacked containers in container well cars, has been increasing. This means that most, if not all, lines are ...

4. Boxcar - Wikipedia

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   A double-door boxcar passes through Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. A boxcar is the North American (AAR) and South Australian Railways term for a railroad car that is enclosed and generally used to carry freight. The boxcar, while not the simplest freight car design, is considered one of the most versatile since it can carry most loads.

5. Minecart - Wikipedia

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   Minecart. Cart from 16th century, found in Transylvania. A minecart, mine cart, or mine car (or more rarely mine trolley or mine hutch) is a type of rolling stock found on a mine railway, used for transporting ore and materials procured in the process of traditional mining. Minecarts are seldom used in modern operations, having largely been ...

6. Stock car (rail) - Wikipedia

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   The 30-short-ton (27.22 t; 26.79-long-ton) capacity "Stillwell Oyster Car," built by Pullman in 1897, was a wooden tank car designed by Arthur E. Stilwell for transporting live oysters from Port Arthur, Texas to Kansas City, Missouri by rail. In 1881, the Commission contracted and built specialized "fish cars" to transport live fish coast-to ...

7. Handcar - Wikipedia

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   Handcar. A handcar (also known as a pump trolley, pump car, rail push trolley, push-trolley, jigger, Kalamazoo, [1] velocipede, or draisine) is a railroad car powered by its passengers, or by people pushing the car from behind. It is mostly used as a railway maintenance of way or mining car, but it was also used for passenger service in some cases.