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- points to secure loads. Flatcars designed for carrying machinery have sliding chain ****emblies recessed in the deck. Flatcars are used for loads that...
- 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...
- ferry Rolling road Youths playing a ball game, circa 500 B.C. Trailers on flatcars in the United States Autorack Bière–Apples–Morges Railway Car carrier trailer...
- TTX's railcar fleet consists of flatcars, autoracks, boxcars and gondolas. Half of the fleet is dedicated to flatcars and intermodal wells, with a quarter...
- system allowed trailers to be pulled by locomotives without the use of flatcars, instead attaching trailers directly to bogies. The advantage of using...
- different rail gauge, or else containers are transloaded from flatcars on one track to flatcars on another track of a different gauge. Cross-docking Customs...
- Container flatcar Depressed-center flatcar or Wellcar or Lowmac (UK): for high-clearance loads (e.g. transformers and boilers) Semi-trailer flatcar Rolling...
- shifting, damage to equipment and cargo, and overheating axles. Originally flatcars ****ed with cabins or modified box cars, they later became purpose-built...
- on railway flatcars or spine cars, an arrangement called "piggyback" or TOFC (trailer on flatcar) to distinguish it from container on flatcar (COFC). Some...
- transporting vehicles, can be bi-level or tri-level Box cars Flatcars Centerbeam flatcar Gondolas - (Rotary Dump Coal Gondola) Hopper cars - (Both Covered...