Gondola: A long, flat, open car with short sides and ends for hauling items like iron, steel, and scrap.
Grade: refers to the level of the ground or the ground surface upon which track is laid.
Gondolas are low cars used to carry freight which is not harmed by weather. They carry everything from scrap metal to blocks to pipes and wood. Sometimes the end of a gondola is cut off, ao that the boom of a crane car can rest in it.
Gondola Long, short open topped car for hauling steel and scrap metals.
Grab iron (Grab) Handles on the sides of cars or equipment.
Grade Angle or rise or fall of tracks as they follow the land.
Gondola
Freight car with a floor and low sides. Some have removable roofs. Used to carry products such as iron, steel, scrap metal, etc.; high-side gondolas are used to carry coal.
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Gondola
An open car with low sides for hauling items like lumber, steel and scrap. Also "bathtub gondolas", with higher sides for commodities like coal and gravel.
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Gondolas which have been equipped with some form of removable cover which can be placed over the lading to protect it from weather exposure in transit. Used primarily for loading sheet steel in coils without the necessity of packing.
A gondola car.
Crankpin
Pin or screw attached to the driving wheels which holds side rods in place, while still allowing them to turn.
A Gondola type of railroad car
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GON"Gondola, or steel-sided, flat-bottom coal car
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In Venice the gondola is usually propelled by one or two oarsmen (known as gondoliers) who stand facing the prow, or by poling. A gondola for passengers has a small open cabin, for their protection against the sun or rain.
Open wagon (UK), Gondola (US). A form of freight hauling car for bulk goods.
ORER Official Railway Equipment Register.
A Hart Convertible Gondola on the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad. This one is a little higher then usual. Side doors, hinged at the top, are clearly visible, and there were doors in the floor as well.
On the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railway (Colorado, USA), the term gondola is used to refer to open-sided passenger carriages which I suspect have been converted from goods wagons.
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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.
The increased use of cars for unit trains and other dedicated services saw a brief revival of interest in gondola-type cars in the early 1960s, but this was soon swamped by a tidal wave of 100-ton triple and quad hoppers in the late 1960s and 1970s.
Louis Union Station: 1970-NMRA fan trip in open gondolas across the Mississippi, around the yards, and return when Union Station still was operative and the highway across the yard tracks into the train shed had just been started.
gondola — a low sided open top railroad car for the carriage of bulk commodities such as coal or stone, for the carriage of steel shapes, or commodities that are too big to fit into a boxcar.
Mineral wagon
Open wagon for shipping minerals - coal, ballast, sand, etc. Roughly analogous to the North American gondola car, but gondolas are generally at least three times as long as the little British wagons.
Locomotive boilers had only a few external pipes. Boxcars, flats and gondolas were products of frugal craftsmen working with readily available materials. Modeling a less complex prototype might relax your tensions. Isn't a hobby supposed to be fun?
Gondola - A long, open, flat, car with short sides for hauling items like lumber, steel and scrap.
Goods - European term for general freight.
The second type is used in the culvert loader and unloader and in the aquarium car and animated gondola. It uses a coil near a flexible steel strip. Similarly it pulls and pushes the strip 60 times a second.
 See also: Train, Car, Track, Locomotive, Switch
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