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5 unusual facts about Railroad car


Air line

Air line is most commonly used for supplying compressed air to air tools in workshops and in road vehicle air brake or railway air brake systems on larger vehicles or rail cars.

OAO Svobodny Railroad Car Repair Plant

Svobodnensky car-repair plant — the enterprice for repair of cars for needs of railway transport, is located in the city Svobodny, the Amur region.

Rail car

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

Railcars

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

Tetbury railway station

In 1963, shortly before the station's closure, an entire Tetbury farm – complete with machinery, foodstuffs, staff and pedigree herd of Hereford cattle – was transported from the station to Stranraer in 31 carriages.


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.

Standard Steel Car Company

Established in 1902 in Butler, Pennsylvania by John M. Hansen and "Diamond Jim" Brady, the company quickly became one of the largest builders of steel cars in the United States.


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Alpha, Illinois

In the early 1980s, director Barry Levinson looked at Alpha's railroad car diner as a possible location for filming scenes for his movie Diner.

John Stoughton Newberry

In the early 1860s, Newberry joined the railroad car manufacturing firm of Dean and Eaton, renaming it Newberry, Dean and Eaton Manufacturing Co. When James McMillan joined the firm in 1864, the company was reorganized as the Michigan Car Company.

Konrad Dannenberg

He witnessed two tests with a rocket-driven railroad car in Burgwedel near Hanover and then joined Albert Püllenberg's group of amateur rocketeers.

Mahlon Betts

Mahlon Betts (1795–1867) was a carpenter, railroad car builder, shipwright, businessman, banker, and legislator who helped found three of Wilmington, Delaware's major manufacturing enterprises: the Harlan and Hollingsworth Company, the Pusey and Jones Company, and the Betts Machine Company.

North Western Refrigerator Line

Between 1924 and 1940 the company acquired more than 3,000 used wood refrigerator cars originally built by the American Car and Foundry Company, and leased the former Ringling Brothers Circus railroad car plant in Baraboo, Wisconsin to serve as a car shop.

Orleans County Courthouse Historic District

The next year George Pullman, the railroad-car entrepreneur who had lived in Albion as a young cabinetmaker around 1850, agreed to build a Universalist church in the village (named Pullman Memorial Universalist Church).

Pullman, Chicago

Historic Pullman was built in the 1880s by George Pullman as workers' housing for employees of his eponymous railroad car company, the Pullman Palace Car Company.

Roscoe, Snyder and Pacific Railway

The remaining tracks serve a railroad car rebuilding facility alongside U.S. Route 84 about two miles (3 km) north of Interstate 20, plus about two miles (3 km) of the old tracks extending northward towards Snyder which are used for storage of rail cars awaiting repair.

Webster Wagner House

It was built in 1876 and designed by noted architect Horatio Nelson White (1814–1892) as the home for railroad car magnate Webster Wagner (1817–1882).