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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.
Flat wagons for carrying timber: the Class Snps 719 (front) and the Class Roos-t 642 (behind). Flat wagons (sometimes flat beds, flats or rail flats, US: flatcars), as classified by the International Union of Railways (UIC), are railway goods wagons that have a flat, usually full-length, deck (or 2 decks on car transporters) and little or no superstructure.
NPH 1 was built on the standard design of underframe as most other narrow-gauge stock, but because it was not anticipated that explosives traffic would require use of the entire wagon, it was partitioned to give 4 long tons (4.1 t; 4.5 short tons) capacity for explosives, while the remaining 6 tons was for general goods.
Thrall was mainly a freight car fabrication and assembly operation. Additional car types manufactured included boxcars and gondolas. Most cars were designed for standard gauge interchange service on AAR-approved railroads within North America. Many tri-level autoracks built by Thrall exist today, identifiable by the blue Thrall rectangle logo ...
A Class Ow goods wagon on the Saxon narrow gauge railways with Heberlein brakes Open wagon for peat, 750 mm (2 ft 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) . An open wagon (or truck in the UK) forms a large group of railway goods wagons designed primarily for the transportation of bulk goods that are not moisture-retentive and can usually be tipped, dumped or shovelled.
Wagon separate wheelsets and loading area 22–27 m 2 (240–290 sq ft) T: Wagon with separate wheelsets and length over 12 m (39 ft 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) G, T: Bogie wagon with loading length of 18 m (59 ft 5 ⁄ 8 in) or more H: Bogie wagon with loading length 18–22 m (59 ft 5 ⁄ 8 in – 72 ft 2 + 1 ⁄ 8 in) K: Bogie wagon with long stakes: L, S
The design was relatively standard, remaining unchanged up to wagon no.779. Wagons 780 to 879 had altered ends and the GY handbrake system. As per the normal practice of the era, scrapped wagons were replaced with new wagons of the same numbers, from 1893 to 1925. Three wagons [5] were fitted with altered roofs, and were used in circus traffic ...
The rails on the flat wagons were continuous, so that the upper train could be rolled on and off in one piece. [3] The leading wagon on the narrow-gauge train was also secured to anchoring on the front wagon on the standard gauge train. [4] Air brakes on the narrow-gauge train were connected to the standard-gauge train's air brakes. A narrow ...