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    railroad car, railcar (American and Canadian English), railway wagon, railway carriage, railway truck, railwagon, railcarriage or railtruck (British...
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    a railroad car that is designed to carry passengers. The term passenger car can also be associated with a sleeping car, a baggage car, a dining car, railway...
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    A railroad car float or rail barge is a specialised form of lighter with railway tracks mounted on its deck used to move rolling stock across water obstacles...
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    Handcar (redirect from Manual railroad car)
    as a pump trolley, pump car, rail push trolley, push-trolley, jigger, Kalamazoo, velocipede, or draisine) is a railroad car powered by its passengers...
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    A private railroad car, private railway coach, private car, or private varnish is a railroad passenger car either originally built or later converted for...
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    rolling stock over the canal.[page needed] In April 1836, the first railroad car ferry in the U.S., Susquehanna, entered service on the Susquehanna River...
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    manufacturer of railroad cars in the mid-to-late 19th century through the first half of the 20th century, during the boom of railroads in the United States...
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    Caboose (redirect from Cabin car)
    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...
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    Boxcar (redirect from Box car)
    Railways term for a railroad car that is enclosed and generally used to carry freight. The boxcar, while not the simplest freight car design, is considered...
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    American car design favored a single pair of doors at one end of the car in the car's vestibule; compartmentized cars on American railroads featured a...
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    dome cars were manufactured by the Budd Company, Pullman Standard and American Car & Foundry. Southern Pacific Railroad built its own dome cars in its...
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  • specially fitted railroad cars called Chapel cars to provide religious services and information from the 1890s to the 1930s. The cars served as both a...
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    The Harding Railroad Car is a historically significant Pullman railroad passenger car located at Pioneer Park (aka Alaskaland) in Fairbanks, Alaska. Also...
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    great-grandson of the founder of the New York Central Railroad; his tender featured a cylindrical body like a tank car with a fuel bunker set into the front end....
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  • Passenger car may also refer to: Passenger car (Ferris wheel), a compartment for carrying passengers Passenger railroad car, railway rolling stock for carrying...
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    A refrigerator car (or "reefer") is a refrigerated boxcar (U.S.), a piece of railroad rolling stock designed to carry perishable freight at specific temperatures...
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    Industries, originally the American Car and Foundry Company (abbreviated as ACF), is an American manufacturer of railroad rolling stock. One of its subsidiaries...
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    A dining car (American English) or a restaurant car (English), also a diner, is a railroad passenger car that serves meals in the manner of a full-service...
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    train/vehicles in the UK) is one or more rail cars intended for internal non-revenue use by the railroad's operator. Work trains serve functions such as...
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    Train (section Train cars)
    self-propelled, such as multiple units. Passengers and cargo are carried in railroad cars, also known as wagons. Trains are designed to a certain gauge, or distance...
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    A tank car (International Union of Railways (UIC): tank wagon) or tanker is a type of railroad car (UIC: railway car) or rolling stock designed to transport...
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    Department of the Army, Washington DC Car and Locomotive Cyclopedia 1970 Forney, Matthias N. (1879). The Railroad Car Builder's Dictionary. Dover Publications...
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  • Railroad Car Repair Plant or Svobodnensky car-repair plant (Russian: Свободненский вагоноремонтный завод) is an enterprise for the repair of railroad...
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  • electric locomotives, diesel multiple units, electric multiple units and railroad cars. When the company began operation in 1991, it was with a collection...
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    brakes and bicycle brakes. A device that is put on a track to slow down railroad cars is also called brake shoe. The brake shoe carries the brake lining,...
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    A well car, also known as a double-stack car (or also intermodal car/container car), is a type of railroad car specially designed to carry intermodal...
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    test car is a type of railroad car in maintenance of way service. Its purpose is to calibrate the weighing scales used to weigh loaded railroad cars. Scale...
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    In the spring of 1839, the Cumberland Valley Railroad pioneered sleeping car service in America with a car named "Chambersburg", between Chambersburg and...
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  • hand-powered railroad car (see Handcar and Draisine), or a small gasoline powered railroad car. Grab bar or Grab iron A handle on the side of a car to allow...
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    The narrow-gauge railroad of Caprolactam factory in Datchnij settlement is the only railway in Russia hauling salt trains. Is located in Dzerzhinsk. The...
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