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Westminster Iron Works Heavy Duty Utility Rail Car. [68] ... Offered for sale in 2022. ... Converted to caboose by Chicago Freight Car Parts Co. in 1943 for use on ...
Caboose. A Burlington Northern extended-vision caboose at the end of a train in 1993. An ex- Santa Fe Railway caboose used by BNSF Railway as a switching platform. A caboose is a crewed North American railroad car coupled at the end of a freight train. Cabooses provide shelter for crew at the end of a train, who were formerly required in ...
7 + 1⁄4 in (184 mm) Length. 2,615 feet (797 m) The Carolwood Pacific Railroad (CPRR) was a 71⁄4 -inch (184 mm) gauge ridable miniature railroad run by Walt Disney in the backyard of his home in the Holmby Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. It featured the Lilly Belle, a 1:8- scale live steam locomotive named after Disney's wife ...
A refrigerator car built by ACF in 1911. ACF Industries, originally the American Car and Foundry Company (abbreviated as ACF), is an American manufacturer of railroad rolling stock. One of its subsidiaries was once (1925–54) a manufacturer of motor coaches and trolley coaches under the brand names of (first) ACF and (later) ACF-Brill.
A modern refrigerator car. The mechanical refrigeration unit is housed behind the grill at the lower right, the car's "A" end. Anheuser-Busch was one of the first companies to transport beer nationwide using railroad refrigerator cars. A refrigerator car (or "reefer") is a refrigerated boxcar (U.S.), a piece of railroad rolling stock designed ...
The Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway (DM&IR) (reporting mark DMIR), informally known as the Missabe Road, [1] was a railroad operating in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin that used to haul iron ore and later taconite to the Great Lakes ports of Duluth and Two Harbors, Minnesota. Control of the railway was acquired on May 10, 2004, by the ...
Rail transport. A railroad car, railcar (American and Canadian English), [a] railway wagon, railway carriage, railway truck, railwagon, railcarriage or railtruck (British English and UIC), also called a train car, train wagon, train carriage or train truck, is a vehicle used for the carrying of cargo or passengers on a rail transport network (a ...
Pacific Electric. The Pacific Electric Railway Company, nicknamed the Red Cars, was a privately owned mass transit system in Southern California consisting of electrically powered streetcars, interurban cars, and buses and was the largest electric railway system in the world in the 1920s. Organized around the city centers of Los Angeles and San ...