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A hopper car (US) or hopper wagon (UIC) is a type of railroad freight car that has opening doors on the underside or on the sides to discharge its cargo. They are used to transport loose solid bulk commodities such as coal, ore, grain, and track ballast. [2][3][4] The hopper car was developed in parallel with the development of automated ...
TECO Line Streetcar. The TECO Line Streetcar is a heritage streetcar transit line in Tampa, Florida, run by the Hillsborough Area Regional Transportation Authority (HART), owned by the city of Tampa, and managed by Tampa Historic Streetcar, Inc. It connects Downtown and Channelside to the historic Ybor City district.
The Orange Belt Railway (later known as the Sanford & St. Petersburg Railroad) was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railroad established in 1885 by Russian exile Peter Demens in Florida. It was one of the longest narrow gauge railroads in the United States at the time of its completion in 1888, with a mainline 152 miles (245 km) in length between ...
Riding on the rooftop of a hopper car. Typically, hoppers will go to a rail yard where trains stop to pick up and unload freight and switch out crew. They will either board a freight car in some fashion unseen or “catch one on the fly” once it has begun to move. [2] Train surfing is a similar activity that involves the act of riding on the ...
US$ 4.4 billion (2013) Net income. US$375.5 million (2013) Number of employees. 15,605 [1] (2017) Website. www.trin.net. Trinity Industries Inc. is an American industrial corporation that owns a variety of businesses which provide products and services to the industrial, energy, transportation and construction sectors.
A refrigerator car built by ACF in 1911. ACF Industries, originally the American Car and Foundry Company (abbreviated as ACF), is an American manufacturer of railroad rolling stock. One of its subsidiaries was once (1925–54) a manufacturer of motor coaches and trolley coaches under the brand names of (first) ACF and (later) ACF-Brill.
French freight car, 1917 Indian bogie coal hopper car, 1919. National Steel Car has manufactured various railcar and non-rail products. 5300 freight cars for the French Northern Railway and Paris, Lyon and Mediterranean Railway, 1915-1920 [9] steel coal hopper cars for the indian Bengal Nagpur Railway in 1919 [10] 50 ton electric locomotives ...
4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Sun Lounges were a fleet of three streamlined sleeper - lounge cars built by Pullman-Standard for the Seaboard Air Line Railroad (SAL) in 1956. The cars featured a distinctive glazed roof area meant to capture the ambience of a dome car in a lower profile, as tunnels on the East Coast of the ...