- A
flatcar (US) (also flat car, or flatbed) is a
piece of
rolling stock that
consists of an open, flat deck
mounted on
trucks (US) or
bogies (UK) at each...
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Trailer on
flatcar, also
known as TOFC or piggyback, is the
practice of
carrying semi-trailers on
railroad flatcars. TOFC
allows for
shippers to move truckloads...
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system allowed trailers to be
pulled by
locomotives without the use of
flatcars,
instead attaching trailers directly to bogies. The
advantage of using...
- the
practice of
carrying trailers or semi-trailers in a
train atop a
flatcar is
referred to as "piggybacking".
Early drawings of the
Liverpool & Manchester...
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Container flatcar Depressed-center
flatcar or
Wellcar or
Lowmac (UK): for high-clearance
loads (e.g.
transformers and boilers) Semi-trailer
flatcar Rolling...
- 2019. "Announcing the
Flatcar Linux project | Kinvolk". kinvolk.io.
March 6, 2018.
Retrieved June 6, 2019. "Introducing the
Flatcar Linux Edge
Channel |...
- shifting,
damage to
equipment and cargo, and
overheating axles.
Originally flatcars ****ed with
cabins or
modified box cars, they
later became purpose-built...
-
string of
flatcars. A
temporary ramp was
placed at the end of the
flatcars and
temporary bridge plates spanned the gaps
between adjacent flatcars; the road...
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another man he
believed to be Ike
Clanton armed with
shotguns lying on a
flatcar. When
Wyatt and his men approached, the two men ran.
Stilwell may have...
- on
railway flatcars or
spine cars, an
arrangement called "piggyback" or TOFC (trailer on
flatcar) to
distinguish it from
container on
flatcar (COFC). Some...
