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Open top cars include drop bottom gondolas, air dump cars, solid bottom gondolas, ballast cars, hopper cars, and ore cars.
52’ 2791 cu. ft. Mill Gondola - The Greenbrier Companies
52’ 2791 cu. ft. Mill Gondola Greenbrier has designed a rugged mill gondola product line for the steel industry and other heavy-duty applications. The 52’-6” gondola design features a tubular top chord with a 3/8 inch thick floor with pinned connections between the sides and ends of the railcar to provide extra strength and flexibility to ...
Railroad Equipment - CSX.com
Coil Gondola. There are both covered and open coil gondola cars equipped with adjustable, expandable cross members (Callahan bars) that lock coils securely in position. Wood- or metal-lined troughs add to cargo protection. The covered coil gondola is used exclusively to handle coiled sheet steel.
Gondola Rail Car (Trains): A Utilitarian Design - American-Rails.com
2024年8月29日 · Perhaps more than any other freight car designs, gondolas (also known as simply "gons"), a close relative of the flatcar but often sporting low ribbed sides, is the catchall of the railroad industry. Often getting little respect it is typically beaten to death in service but is well-liked for its multitude of uses.
Gondola (rail) - Wikipedia
Gondola cars began to be built for specialized purposes and, depending on their intended cargo, the side heights could range from just two feet (0.61 m) for bulk commodities such as sand, to six feet (1.83 m) or more for loads such as pipes, and ten feet (3.0 m) or more for light cargos such as woodchips. [2]
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What Are All of the Different Rail Car Types? - Union Pacific
How gondolas are built: Gondolas are sturdy cars with low side walls and open tops. Imagine a boxcar cut in half horizontally, and you’ve got yourself a gondola. What intermodal equipment carries: A wide variety of goods, from apparel to electronics …
Gondola Railcar Manufacturing and Maintenance - TrinityRail
TrinityRail’s product line includes everything from rugged, heavy-duty mill gondolas to lightweight aluminum rotary gondolas for unit train coal service, to coil steel cars and other specialized products.
Railcar Guide & Fleet Specifications | Norfolk Southern
2024年11月27日 · Coil cars are gondola cars specifically designed for the transportation of coils. Coil cars run with or without covers. The primary loading method supported by coil cars is transverse (cross-trough) loading. Coil cars that are fitted with cover (s) for protection of lading as required. Open coil cars do not come fitted with protected covers.
gondola car. FreightCar America’s “continuous improvement” has kept this car in the fore front as the most recognized coal gondola in the industry. Having delivered over 70,000 cars, it is the best selling railcar ever produced by FreightCar America. Since the original