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).
Flatcars
Flatcars carry all sorts of interesting loads that make fun modeling projects. From steel to vehicles to lumber, many flatcars have special features to help secure a specific load.
Flatcar
Freight car with a floor, but no sides or roof. Used to carry loads, often large objects, that do not require weather protection. Some have end or center bulkheads for carrying lumber. Intermodal flatcars carry truck trailers or containers.
Flatcar
A freight car with only a flat deck and no side rails or walls.
Flexicoil Truck ...
Long flatcar designed with multiple levels for transporting finished automobiles and trucks
NACS ...
FLAT"Flatcar. Also called car with the top blowed off
FLAT WHEEL"Car wheel that has flat spots on the tread. Also applied to an employee who limps ...
Trailer-on-flatcar. (Intermodal service.)
Ton-mile
One ton of freight transported one mile.
A train of loaded flatcars
A FRED Flashing rear-end device
A brakeman uses a fusee to demonstrate a hand signal indicating "stop" ...
Aircraft parts flatcar.
Wheel: The rolling component typically pressed onto an axle and mounted on a rail car or locomotive truck or bogie. Wheels are cast or forged (wrought) and are heat treated to have a specific hardness.
Stack Train Train made up entirely or mainly of single or double stack containers on flatcars designed for just that purpose.
A type of flatcar (freight wagon with a flat surface) with walls front and back but no sides. See also "Centre-Beam Bulkhead".
Bumper
RAILWAYS.
We learned our train contained a flatcar designed to piggyback damaged freight cars. The trucks and wheels are removed from such a car and it is set on the specially designed flatcar. This car carried a damaged Wisconsin Central boxcar.
The movement of truck trailers on flatcars. Also called trailer-on-flatcar (TOFC).
Platform
A loading dock for freight or passengers. A high platform is even with the car floor, while a low platform may be at any height below floor level.
Home-made tool car built on small HLW flatcar kit. We used basswood and balsa, plus Bachmann miniature tools and crewman
Another view. You can see toolbox inside cab - an unusual item we found in a hobby shop.
Auto Rack also Autorack
A flatcar equipped with decks, walls, roof and end doors for transporting automobiles and light trucks on two or three levels. (Also referred to as a "Multi-Level car" or Bi-Level car.) ...
You may use AAR car codes, or common descriptions like "boxcar", "hopper", "gondola", "tank car", and "flatcar". A final column is used to compute totals.
If you wish, you could cut out one end of a passenger car or boxcar and install the camera inside so that it's not readily seen from the outside. You could also install it on a flatcar and angle it to the inside of your layout so your can watch the ...
 See also: Engine, Track, Switch, Locomotive, Car
  
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