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Hbillns wagon with sliding sides in ITL’s green livery Commonwealth Oil Corporation goods wagon in Australia. Goods wagons or freight wagons [1] (North America: freight cars), [2] also known as goods carriages, goods trucks, freight carriages or freight trucks, are unpowered railway vehicles that are used for the transportation of cargo.
Wagonload freight was still loss making in 1965 despite the closures – making a loss of £40 million (from a £54million loss in 1961). No improvement in profitability had been achieved by 1966, despite the economies, and in part exacerbated by the cuts. [11] In 1967 wagonload freight produced two thirds of British Rail's freight revenue ...
The Freight Wagon Memorial stands in front of the Winterhude district school in Hamburg-Winterhude. It depicts a group of figures by the artists POM [ 1 ] and Cristine Schell as well as a covered freight wagon.
The wagons' bodies were 16 feet (4.88 m) long and 6 feet (1.83 m) deep; the rear wheels were 7 feet (2.13 m) in diameter, and the wagons weighed 7,800 pounds (3,500 kg) empty. [11] [12] Freight wagons in the American West were hauled by oxen, mules or horses.
A Class 92 hauled container freight train on the West Coast Main Line, United Kingdom A long grain train of the Union Pacific Railroad crossing a bridge in Washington state, United States Freight trains wait for departure in Zhengzhou, China. Rail freight transport is the use of railways and trains to transport cargo as opposed to human passengers.
Narrow covered wagon used by west-bound Canadian settlers c. 1885 Painting showing a wagon train of covered wagons. A covered wagon, also called a prairie wagon, whitetop, [1] or prairie schooner, [2] is a horse-drawn or ox-drawn wagon used for passengers or freight hauling. It has a canvas, tarpaulin, or waterproof sheet which is stretched ...
Conestoga Wagon 1750–1850: Freight Carrier for 100 Years of America's Westward Expansion (3rd ed.). George Shumway. OCLC 1338320. Simpson, Wilma Hicks (12 March 2013). Greater Than the Mountains was He: The True Story of Johann Jacob Shook of Johann Jacob Shook of Haywood County, North Carolina. Tate Publishing. ISBN 978-1-62295-460-5.
For covered wagons there was the Class A2 wagon with a 15 t (14.8 long tons; 16.5 short tons) maximum load and 21.3 m 2 (229 sq ft) loading area built to a standard template, and the large-volume covered wagon based on template A9, also with a 15 t (14.8 long tons; 16.5 short tons) maximum load, but a 21.3 m 2 (229 sq ft) loading area.