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- 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...
- 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...
- system allowed trailers to be pulled by locomotives without the use of flatcars, instead attaching trailers directly to bogies. The advantage of using...
- 2019. "Announcing the Flatcar Linux project | Kinvolk". kinvolk.io. March 6, 2018. Retrieved June 6, 2019. "Introducing the Flatcar Linux Edge Channel |...
- Container flatcar Depressed-center flatcar or Wellcar or Lowmac (UK): for high-clearance loads (e.g. transformers and boilers) Semi-trailer flatcar Rolling...
- Fastest Freight Train," the all-TOFC (trailer-on-flatcar, or "piggyback") and COFC (container-on-flatcar) train ran about 2,200 miles (3,500 km) between...
- BNSF train on Tehachapi Loop in 2011, with mixed trailer-on-flatcar and double-stack container manifest...
- 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...
- bolster wagon Chauldron wagon class U special wagon Conflat Double-stack car Flatcar (US) Flat wagon (EU) Gondola (US) Hopper car Kangourou wagon Lowmac Minecart...
- transporting vehicles, can be bi-level or tri-level Box cars Flatcars Centerbeam flatcar Gondolas - (Rotary Dump Coal Gondola) Hopper cars - (Both Covered...