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A Class Ow goods wagon on the Saxon narrow gauge railways with Heberlein brakes Open wagon for peat, 750 mm (2 ft 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) . An open wagon (or truck in the UK) forms a large group of railway goods wagons designed primarily for the transportation of bulk goods that are not moisture-retentive and can usually be tipped, dumped or shovelled.
A bathtub gondola passing through Rochelle, Illinois, in 2005. In the second half of the 20th century, coal haulage shifted from open hopper cars to high-sided gondola cars, which allowed a larger amount of coal per car since gondola cars do not include the equipment needed for unloading.
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 ...
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TTX Company (formerly TrailerTrain) is a provider of railcars and related freight car management services to the North American rail industry.TTX's pool of railcars—over 168,000 cars and intermodal well cars—supports shippers in several industries where flatcars, boxcars and gondolas are required.
Used with gondola cars, it is making open hopper cars obsolete. Because hopper cars require sloped chutes in order to direct the contents to the bottom dump doors (hatches) for unloading, gondola cars allow cars to be lower, thus lowering their center of gravity, while carrying the same gross rail load. Cars are equipped with rotary couplers to ...
Family members and protesters are set to gather Sunday afternoon at a Cracker Barrel in Maryland, where a group of special education students received what the restaurant later called ...
Steam railcar supplied to the Otavi Railway OMEG tank locomotive with high-side gondola near Tsumeb about 1931. South African Railways 2 ft (610 mm) gauge SAR NGG 16 Class Garratt, preserved in operating condition on the Welsh Highland Railway. This later version of the locomotives used from 1927 to 1933 is the model considered for use in 1958.