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The Railroad Car Builder's Dictionary. Dover Publications. White, John H. (1978). The American Railroad Passenger Car. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0801819652. OCLC 2798188. White, John H. Jr. (1993). The American Railroad Freight Car: From the Wood-Car Era to the Coming of Steel. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Sleeping Car Ateliers de Construction du Nord de la France, Blanc-Misseron: 1936 Shildon [184] 1978–7047 LNER: 650 Buffet Car York: Dia No. 167, Lot No. 761 1937 York [185] 1978–7065 LMS: 5987 Corridor Brake Third Derby: Dia No. 1968, Lot No. 1035 1937 York [186] 1977–7000 LMS: 45053 Mobile Test Unit 1938 Embsay [187] LMS: 799 Twelve ...
Reporting marks on two Canadian Pacific covered hopper cars; with the left car marked as CP 388686 and the right car marked as SOO 115239. A reporting mark is a code used to identify owners or lessees of rolling stock and other equipment used on certain rail transport networks.
Throughout railroad history, many manufacturing companies have come and gone. This is a list of companies that manufactured railroad cars and other rolling stock.Most of these companies built both passenger and freight equipment and no distinction is made between the two for the purposes of this list.
AEB is set to be mandatory in cars and light trucks by September 2029. [ 33 ] In Australia where AEB is not yet mandatory, the federal government has suggested in a Regulation Impact Statement (RIS) that car-to-car and pedestrian AEB should be standard on all new models launched from July 2022 and all new vehicles sold from July 2024 like in ...
All of the concepts proposed a longer vehicle than the current Type 8/9 cars, with lengths ranging from 100 to 131 ft (30 to 40 m). The MBTA's final concept for the new cars was a 114-foot (35 m) articulated low-floor light rail vehicle made up of 7 segments, riding on 4 trucks, and equipped with 5 sliding doors on each side. [5]: 30–35
The General Overhaul Program (GOH) was a mid-life overhaul program for neglected subway cars, which involved a thorough rebuilding of the fleet. Since the completion of the GOH program, the new Scheduled Maintenance System (SMS) program has replaced the GOH program by ensuring that trains do not reach a state in which they would need such an overhaul.