Flat Cars
A flat car is a rolling platform for cargo to large for boxcars or gondolas. Some flat cars are interesting in themselves. Others are fascinating for the loads they carry.
An O27 depressed flay car with New Holland loader ...
Flat car with steel racks for transporting fully assembled automobiles. Rack have either two or three levels, are equipped with tie-down devices, and are cushioned for vertical and horizontal shocks.
Auxiliary Reservoir ...
Flat cars equipped with fixed or permanently attached movable bulkheads or ends a minimum of 3 feet in height and flat floor for general commodity loading.
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Container on flat car. Referred to in intermodal traffic.
Coffee
Respite period enjoyed by baggage men while awaiting arrival of the next train. Also called spot.
flatcar (also flat car) is a piece of railroad rolling stock that consists of an open, flat deck on four or six wheels or a pair of trucks (US) or bogies (UK).
Piggyback TOFC or trailer on a flat car. Originally used when truck trailers were loaded onto flat cars for shipment by rail. Piglet A locomotive engineer trainee.
COFC - Container on flat car.
Cog Railroad - A railroad that can climb steep grades by using a toothed cog wheel between the driving wheels of the locomotive that meshes with the teeth of a rack rail that is mounted to the cross ties between ...
Modern tank cars usually have a horizontal tank but early ones had one or more vertical tubs mounted on a flat car.
TOFC Trailer on a flat car. Refers to intermodal shipments. Tons per Operative Brake Gross trailing tonnage of the train divided by the total number of cars having operative brakes.
COFC: Abbreviation for "Container On Flat Car".[9]
Colour light signal: A signal in which the colour of the light(s) determine the meaning of the aspect shown.
Generally a non-load carrying flat car or gondola car that is used in train consist for: (1) Providing space for load end overhang that extends beyond striker of load car.
Known as a flat car in the US. Flat (2) A spot on a wheel, caused by skidding or wheel slide, ...
Container on flat car. Probably a US term. See also "TOFC".
Cog Railway
RAILWAYS. See "Rack And Pinion".
Colour Position Light (CPL)
RAILWAYS. A type of signal.
A quick scan shows just a couple of FLAT cars in the inbound tracks waiting to be humped. We would then start putting the overflow MORT's on top of the cars in the FLAT track.
Flat cars can load or unload a wide variety of freight at the team track. Machinery, a new fire engine for the town, stone blocks from a local quarry, lumber either in or out are some possibilities.
With respect to freight traffic, it is most often used for the carriage of highway trailers (TOFC) or containers on flat cars (COFC).
The other three waybills are for a coal hopper, a general service gondola, and a flat car. This seems to be a fairly reasonable distribution for a furniture manufacturer in the mid-1950s.
The movement of truck trailers on flat cars. See also, "Intermodal."
Pike
A model railroad layout.
You also can use thin, flexible cardboard that is ready for gluing without additional preparation. Glue each castle element to the flat cardboard. This step will give structure to each element of the castle.
 See also: Track, Train, Car, Switch, Locomotive
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