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2 unusual facts about Rail car


Rail car

Railcar, a type of self-propelled passenger-carrying railway vehicle.

Railroad car, another type of railway vehicle, pulled by a locomotive.



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Livestock transportation

Supposedly the first shipment of live cattle to Chicago by rail car was in 1867 on the Kansas Pacific Railway.

Mrs Bracegirdle's Woodlyn Park Adventure

Of the various lodgings visitors can choose, there is a 1950s rail car, a rare patrol boat from World War II, a Bristol Freighter and The Shire from The Lord of the Rings.

Procor

It is Canada's largest private rail car rental fleet that has more than 21,000 conventional and special-purpose tank and freight cars.

US Standard Light Rail Vehicle

When the San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni) in San Francisco, California, and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) in Boston, Massachusetts, were looking at building new vehicles or import existing European vehicles, the UMTA created a committee (the BSF Committee) to design a standardized light rail car.