-
points to
secure loads.
Flatcars designed for
carrying machinery have
sliding chain ****emblies
recessed in the deck.
Flatcars are used for
loads that...
-
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...
-
ferry Rolling road
Youths playing a ball game,
circa 500 B.C.
Trailers on
flatcars in the
United States Autorack Bière–Apples–Morges
Railway Car
carrier trailer...
-
system allows trailers to be
pulled by
locomotives without the use of
flatcars,
instead attaching trailers directly to bogies. The
advantage of using...
- on
railway flatcars or
spine cars, an
arrangement called "piggyback" or TOFC (trailer on
flatcar) to
distinguish it from
container on
flatcar (COFC). Some...
- TTX's
railcar fleet consists of
flatcars, autoracks,
boxcars and gondolas. Half of the
fleet is
dedicated to
flatcars and
intermodal wells, with a quarter...
-
different rail gauge, or else
containers are
transloaded from
flatcars on one
track to
flatcars on
another track of a
different gauge. Cross-docking Customs...
-
Container flatcar Depressed-center
flatcar or
Wellcar or
Lowmac (UK): for high-clearance
loads (e.g.
transformers and boilers) Semi-trailer
flatcar Rolling...
- methods. When the
circus switched to
travel by
train they
began by
using flatcars from the
Pennsylvania Railroad,
which turned out to be
hazardous because...
-
special "Train on Train" standard-gauge
trains (akin to a
covered piggyback flatcar train)
built to
withstand the
shock wave of
oncoming Shinkansen trains...
