- 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...
- P****
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...
- on
railway flatcars or
spine cars, an
arrangement called "piggyback" or TOFC (trailer on
flatcar) to
distinguish it from
container on
flatcar (COFC). Some...
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bolster wagon Chauldron wagon class U
special wagon Conflat Double-stack car
Flatcar (US) Flat
wagon (EU)
Gondola (US)
Hopper car
Kangourou wagon Lowmac Minecart...
- BNSF
train on
Tehachapi Loop in 2011, with
mixed trailer-on-
flatcar and double-stack
container manifest...
- 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...
