A flatcar (US) (also flat car, or flatbed) is a piece of rolling stock that consists of an open, flat deck mounted on trucks (US) or bogies (UK) at each...
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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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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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system allowed 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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lieu of a cross Steel fence post, a kind of stake Side stakes used on flatcars etc Stake: Fortune Fighters, a 2003 video game The Stake, a 1915 silent...
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2019. "Announcing the Flatcar Linux project | Kinvolk". kinvolk.io. March 6, 2018. Retrieved June 6, 2019. "Introducing the Flatcar Linux Edge Channel |...
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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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Transporter wagon (section Transporter flatcar)
Railways 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) narrow-gauge cattle cars on continuous rails laid on 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge flatcars (outback Australia)...
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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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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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