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unusual facts about Railcar


Rail car

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


1908 New York to Paris Race

The Germans, driven by Hans Koeppen, arrived in Paris four days earlier, but had been penalized a total of 30 days for not going to Alaska and for shipping the Protos part of the way by railcar.

Avalon Rail

The company was founded in 2000 by former employees of Northern Rail Car Corporation, a railcar manufacturer then owned by William E. Gardner, who also owns the Wisconsin and Southern Railroad.

Barney and Smith Car Company

Barney & Smith faced challenges from bigger railcar makers in the late 1890s and early 1900s and went into receivership in 1913, when the Great Dayton Flood damaged its facilities; the company finally disappeared in 1921.

Canada Car Company

Canada Car Company was a railcar manufacturer based in Turcot, Quebec (a suburb in Montreal), and later merged with several other companies to form Canadian Car and Foundry in 1909.

Capital MetroRail

In September 2005, Stadler Rail won a bid to build six Stadler GTW diesel-electric light regional railcars for the system.

Commonwealth Railways CB class railcar

The CB class railcar or Budd railcar are a type of diesel railcar built by Budd Company, Philadelphia for the Commonwealth Railways, Australia in 1951.

Dining car

In the dining cars of Amtrak's modern bilevel Superliner trains, booth seating on either side of a center aisle occupies almost the entire upper level, while the galley is below; food is sent to the upper level on a dumbwaiter.

Healesville railway line

The Yarra Valley Railway currently run a Walker railcar from Healesville to the Tarrawarra Winery, crossing the Watts River, under the Donovan's Road overbridge and through the tunnel.

Hybrid vehicle

The new Autorail à grande capacité (AGC or high-capacity railcar) built by the Canadian company Bombardier for service in France.

Lambourn Valley Railway

The GWR considered how economies might be made, and at length on 5 February 1937 an AEC diesel railcar, no 18 started operating on the branch.

Morrison-Knudsen

MK was also one of the largest passenger railcar rebuilders, based at the original Erie Railroad shop in Hornell, New York, overhauling and rebuilding many New York City Transit (NYCT) subway cars including R26/R28s, R29s, R32s (Phase I & II), some R36 World's Fair cars (pilot program), R42s, R44s, and R46s.

Museum of Lake Minnetonka

From there the finished craft were transported to Excelsior via flatbed railcar and launched into Lake Minnetonka.

MV Patrick Morris

Built for the West India Fruit and Steamship Company by Canadian Vickers Ltd. of Montreal, Quebec in 1951, the 460-foot vessel was called the SS New Grand Haven and operated as a railcar ferry between Palm Beach, Florida and Havana, Cuba until 1959 when Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba and business declined due to the United States Trade Embargo.

NZR RM class

The first truly successful railcar class to enter service in New Zealand began operating in 1936, following the building of the Red Terror (an inspection car on a Leyland Cub chassis) for the General Manager Garnet Mackley in 1933.

Rocky Mountaineer

10 Colorado Railcar (now US Railcar) bi-level Ultra Dome coaches, with wrap-over view windows on the top level.

Somua

In 1936 Somua produced a railcar for PLM, the XS 1 to 11.

South Australian Railways 620 class

The 620 class was phased out in favour of Bluebird Railcars, although a spate of railcar failures in 1954–55 saw the 620 class return to service on the Port Pirie line.

Stourbridge Town Branch Line

The Great Western Railway used both autotrains and one of the early railcars on this route, and in December 2005 the route began being used to test the Parry People Mover, a highly energy-efficient railcar, to provide the Sunday service.

Stourbridge Town railway station

It has a single 170 ft (52 m) platform which is more than long enough to hold a single car Class 153 railcar, which formerly shuttled passengers between the station and Stourbridge Junction; the line now uses two Class 139 people mover-type cars.

Wyndham Branch

Ford Model T bus equipment was used as the basis for two railcars in 1925, and in May 1926, the RM class Model T Ford railcars began providing a service on the line as well as on the Waikaia Branch.


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