A hopper car (NAm) or hopper wagon (UIC) is a type of railroad freight car that has opening doors or gates on the underside or on the sides to discharge...
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Freighthopping (redirect from Train hopper)
Typically, hoppers will go to a rail yard where trains stop to pick up and unload freight and switch out crew. They will either board a freight car in some...
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equipment. Well car North American freight car gallery American style two-bay hopper cars of the Reading Railroad U.S. type Railbox boxcar A spine car with a 20 ft...
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Look up hopper in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hopper or hoppers may refer to: Hopper, Illinois Hopper, West Virginia Hopper, a mountain and valley...
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DeWolf Hopper Jr. (January 26, 1915 – March 6, 1970) was an American stage, film, and television actor. The only child of actor DeWolf Hopper and actress...
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in relation to dredging. The word 'hopper' has multiple meanings. The hopper car is a well known use, but hopper can also mean: "any of various other...
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A rotary car dumper or wagon tippler (UK) is a mechanism used for unloading certain railroad cars such as hopper cars, gondolas or mine cars (tipplers...
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Freight train (section Freight cars)
train, such as: Boxcar Tank Car Hopper Car Covered Hopper Car Centerbeam Car Flatcar Intermodal Well Car Gondola Car Autorack Car As of April 2020, there...
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7549, and Southern Pacific SD45T-2 9340, which were on the head end, 69 hopper cars loaded with trona, and Southern Pacific SD40T-2 8317 and Southern Pacific...
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Starlight Express (redirect from Dustin the Big Hopper)
Rocky 1, Rocky 2 and Rocky 3, a brick truck called Flat-Top, an aggregate hopper called Dustin and a caboose called C.B. They introduce themselves to the...
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modified covered hopper cars from American Car and Foundry for transporting perishable food in bulk. The 55-foot (16.76 m)-long cars were blanketed with...
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Dennis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010) was an American actor, filmmaker, photographer and visual artist. He was considered one of the key figures...
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boxcars Hopper car Open wagon (UIC) Refrigerator car (US) Refrigerated van (UIC) Tank car (US), Tank wagon (UIC) Aircraft parts car Autorack Coil car (rail)...
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Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was an American realism painter and printmaker. He is one of America's most renowned artists and known for...
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following year. In the past, ACF built passenger and freight cars, including covered hopper cars for hauling such cargo as corn and other grains. One of the...
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Gondola (rail) (redirect from Container well car)
track. Gondola cars are distinct from hopper cars in that they do not have doors on their floor to empty cargo. The first gondola cars in North America...
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extracted product (e.g., coal, ores) for transport, typically into railroad hopper cars. In the United States, tipples have been frequently associated with coal...
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crops or fertilizer. For easy comparison, it is similar to a railroad hopper car, only with one door which is located on the bottom side rather than on...
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Hopper is a graphics processing unit (GPU) microarchitecture developed by Nvidia. It is designed for datacenters and is used alongside the Lovelace microarchitecture...
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Rail freight transport (redirect from Less-than-car load)
railroad car. Liquids, such as petroleum and chemicals, and compressed gases are carried by rail in tank cars. Hopper cars are freight cars used to transport...
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LKAB Malmtrafik (section Hopper cars)
located in Norway. The company owns 28 Iore locomotives and 750 hopper cars. Each train is 68 cars long and weighs 8,600 tonnes (8,500 long tons; 9,500 short...
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(freight cars) for the North American market. Its assets encompassed all types of common freight cars, including box, flat, covered and open-top hopper (gondola)...
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of cars once manufactured by Procor: Hopper car Tank car - (sulphuric acid, LPG, ethanol) Funnel flow tank car Coal gondola Procor operates from numerous...
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dumped gondolas for traditional hopper cars. These incorporate a rotating coupler and draft gear in one end, to allow the cars to be dumped without uncoupling...
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jumbo Coil car - Longitudinal and transverse coil cars Flat car - including Centre beam cars Gondola car - including coal car Hopper car - covered and...
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Covered hopper Flexible intermediate bulk container (bigbag) Harmonized System Hopper car Lake freighter Loading gauge Maritime transport Milk tank car Neo-bulk...
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Open wagon (redirect from Hopper wagons)
double-shackle running gear Swedish iron ore hopper (mineral wagon), built in 1900 Kambarka Engineering Works hopper car to transport track ballast, 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in)...
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Southern Railway Big John hopper #8638 Norfolk Southern flatcar. Used as a stage for events 3 Norfolk & Western hopper cars. Saved from Virginia Scrap...
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railcar Passenger cars, also called carriages or coaches Hopper car, one of many types of revenue freight cars Articulated well cars with intermodal containers...
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A covered hopper car in a Canadian train for shipping potash by rail...
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