A flatcar (US) (also flat car, or flatbed) is a piece of rolling stock that consists of an open, flat deck mounted on a pair of trucks (US) or bogies...
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Trailer on flatcar, also known as TOFC or piggyback, is the practice of carrying semi-trailers on railroad flatcars. TOFC allows for shippers to move truckloads...
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system allows trailers to be pulled by locomotives without the use of flatcars, instead attaching trailers directly to bogies. The advantage of using...
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Container flatcar Depressed-center flatcar or Wellcar or Lowmac (UK): for high-clearance loads (e.g. transformers and boilers) Semi-trailer flatcar Rolling...
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List of White Pass and Yukon Route locomotives and cars (section Former White Pass flatcars now serving as underframes)
Pass Flatcar Numbers: In 1959, the U.S. Navy sold to the Oahu Ry. 63 flatcars and 84 boxcars. Twenty-five of the 84 boxcars were cut down to flatcars for...
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Fastest Freight Train," the all-TOFC (trailer-on-flatcar, or "piggyback") and COFC (container-on-flatcar) train ran about 2,200 miles (3,500 km) between...
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the practice of carrying trailers or semi-trailers in a train atop a flatcar is referred to as "piggybacking". Early drawings of the Liverpool & Manchester...
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transporting vehicles, can be bi-level or tri-level Box cars Flatcars Centerbeam flatcar Gondolas - (Rotary Dump Coal Gondola) Hopper cars - (Both Covered...
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BNSF train on Tehachapi Loop in 2011, with mixed trailer-on-flatcar and double-stack container manifest...
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A flatcar with a 20 ft tanktainer and an open-top 20 ft container with canvas cover...
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