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A railroad car, railcar (American and Canadian English), [a] railway wagon, railway carriage, railway truck, railwagon, railcarriage or railtruck (British English and UIC), also called a train car, train wagon, train carriage or train truck, is a vehicle used for the carrying of cargo or passengers on a rail transport network (a railroad/railway).
The baggage car is a car that was normally placed between the train's motive power and the remainder of the passenger train. The car's interior is normally wide open and is used to carry passengers' checked baggage.
The Santa Fe Railway built a steam powered rail car using a body by American Car and Foundry, a Jacobs-Schupert boiler and a Ganz power truck in 1911. Numbered M-104, the experiment was a failure, and was not repeated.
In Finland, rail cars can be up to 3.4 m (11 ft 2 in) wide with a permitted height from 4.37 m (14 ft 4 in) on the sides to 5.3 m (17 ft 5 in) in the centre. [54] The track gauge is 1,524 mm (5 ft), differing 4 mm (5 ⁄ 32 in) from the 1,520 mm (4 ft 11 + 27 ⁄ 32 in) Russian track gauge.
All cars were converted to pump train cars between 2013 and 2022. R110B: 1992 IND, BMT: Bombardier: 9 3001–3009 2000 (Built as Contract R131) New Technology demonstrator, 67-foot (20 m) car Cars 3002, 3005, and 3008 have no cabs and were known as "B" cars. Other six cars have single full-width cabs, and are known as "A" cars.
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Siemens Venture is a type of locomotive-hauled passenger railroad car built by Siemens Mobility for the North American market. ... All seats will be 19 inches wide ...
The cars were built with an electric piano in the lower level, which has since been removed. [92] In addition to the Sightseer lounges, Amtrak converted five Superliner I dining cars to lounge cars in 1998 for use on the Auto Train, an automobile-carrying overnight train between Virginia and Florida. These cars may be distinguished from the ...