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A cattle wagon or a livestock wagon is a type of railway vehicle designed to carry livestock.Within the classification system of the International Union of Railways they fall under Class H - special covered wagons - which, in turn are part of the group of covered goods wagons, although cattle have historically also been transported in open goods wagons.
Driving cattle across the plains led to tremendous weight loss, and a number of animals were typically lost along the way. Upon arrival at the local processing plant, livestock were either slaughtered by wholesalers and delivered fresh to nearby butcher shops for retail sale, smoked, or packed for shipment in barrels of salt.
Aero – airscrew wagon (from 1941) [6] Ale – cattle wagon, converted to carry beer barrels (from 1940) [6] Asmo – covered motor car truck; Beaver – flat truck; Beetle – special cattle truck [34] Bloater – fish van [34] Bocar – covered truck for car bodies; Cone – gunpowder van; Conflat – flat wagon for containers; Coral ...
Wagons LL1 to LL50 were constructed, resembling two L wagons joined and placed on bogies. Each wagon was capable of holding 50 sheep per compartment for a total of 200. [9] The wagons were also unusual in that they had two waybill clips, so that one half of the wagn could be used by one owner, and the other half for another person's sheep.
A chuckwagon or chuck wagon is a horse-drawn wagon operating as a mobile field kitchen and frequently covered with a white tarp, also called a camp wagon or round-up wagon. [1] It was historically used for the storage and transportation of food and cooking equipment on the prairies of the United States and Canada. [ 2 ]
Chaldron wagon c.1865-70 Shildon [205] 1975–7055 NER: 512 Four-wheel oil tank wagon Darlington Wagon & Engineering Co. 1889 Shildon [206] 1975–7045 MSLR: 6671 4-plank Goods wagon Dukinfield, MSLR 1890 Manchester [207] Y1998.24 NER: 12 Snow Plough NER Dia No. U31 1891 Shildon [208] 1978–7123 LSWR: 99 Four-wheel goods brake van Eastleigh ...
For example, the Great Montana Centennial Cattle Drive of 1989 celebrated the state of Montana's centennial and raised money for a college scholarship fund as 2,400 people (including some working cowboys), 200 wagons and 2,800 cattle traveled 50 miles in six days from Roundup to Billings along a major highway. [27]
Livestock van for small livestock e.g. sheep and poultry. VO to 1921 Offener Viehwagen. Open livestock wagon for large livestock, e.g. cattle and horses. WG from ? (DB) Gesellschaftwagen. Company coach. WL… from 1928 Schlafwagen − "wagon-lit". Sleeper. (only in combination with A, B, C) WR from 1928 Speisewagen − "wagon-restaurant".