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unusual facts about wagons



Africa Addio

Roger Ebert, in his review of the film, cited several scenes that he found suspect, including one showing white Boers leaving Kenya in cattle-drawn wagons to return to Southern Africa.

Alpine rolling highway

Modalohr wagons, designed and built by the Alsatian company Lohr Industrie are used.

These wagons are hauled by a series of BB 36000 locomotives modified for operation in Italy, the BB 36300.

Atlanta in the American Civil War

We rode out of Atlanta by the Decatur road, filled by the marching troops and wagons of the Fourteenth Corps; and reaching the hill, just outside of the old rebel works, we naturally paused to look back upon the scenes of our past battles.

Ballena, California

Ballena began in 1870, as a way stop and layover point for freight wagons, which provided fresh teams of horses and mules for the wagons on the road between the gold rush camps of Branson City, Coleman City, Eastwood and Julian and the ports of National City and San Diego.

Battle of Intombe

In late February 1879, a convoy of eighteen wagons carrying 90,000 rounds of ammunition and other supplies was sent from Lydenburg to re-supply the garrison, and from the Transvaal border was escorted by a single company.

Battle of Jenkins' Ferry

On April 25, 1864, in an action called the Battle of Marks' Mill, two Confederate cavalry brigades under the overall command of Brigadier General James Fagan, operating under Price, captured a Union wagon train of between 211 and 240 wagons and 1,300 men of the escort which Steele had sent to seek supplies from the federal depot at Pine Bluff.

Battle of Lipany

Both Prokop the Great and Prokůpek (Prokop the Little) were killed, holding "the last stand" at the wagons.

Battle of Nooitgedacht

On 2 December, De la Rey's commando ambushed an ox-wagon convoy east of Rustenburg, killing and wounding 64 British soldiers and capturing 54 men and 118 wagons.

Battle of Vaslui

Twenty thousand Bulgarian peasants were also included in the army; their main tasks were to clear the way for the rest of the army by building bridges over waters and removing snow from the roads, and to drive supply wagons.

Bend Me, Shape Me

American Breed's “Bend Me Shape Me” was later featured in a 2000 TV commercial for Flexon eyeglass frames (revived in 2007), as well as a 2001 TV commercial for Mercedes-Benz station wagons, a 2002 TV commercial for Gap Stretch Jeans, and the 2001 Futurama episode "Bendless Love".

Bowman Malcolm

In this role he directed the construction and rebuilding of locomotives, coaches and goods wagons and the introduction of the von Borries two-cylinder compound locomotive to the BNCR.

Break-of-gauge

More rarely, standard gauge vehicles are carried over narrow gauge tracks using adaptor vehicles; examples include the Rollbocke transporter wagon arrangements in Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic and the milk transporter wagons of the Leek and Manifold Valley Light Railway in England.

Bristoe Campaign

On October 13, Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart was on one of his typical cavalry raids to capture supply wagons and blundered into the rear guard of the Union III Corps near Warrenton.

Bull bridge accident

As a goods train was passing over the bridge at Bullbridge, the structure failed suddenly, causing the derailment of the majority of the wagons.

Caldicot railway station

In typical broad gauge fashion, these works lines used two short hand-worked turntables to move wagons between the lines, rather than points.

Chemin de Cocaigne

This route, the only route that was fit for wheeled vehicles, was a long-range commercial link that gained strategic significance in wartime; where it crossed Bourgon at the meadow of Le Pavement, the Battle of La Brossinière was fought along the chemin in September 1423, a victory for French in the Hundred Years' War; the English forces were forced to abandon their baggage train, which had dictated their course with its heavily laden wagons.

Commonwealth Railways NC class

Australian National approached Steamtown to gauge availability of a number of tanker wagons that had been collected in Peterborough.

Conflat

The wagons were removed from service (as were the containers themselves) when more modern containers came into use.

Edina Mill

This was a direct result of the fact that prior to these mills, farmers had to haul their grain in horse-drawn wagons over long distances to the mills at Saint Anthony Falls along the Mississippi River.

Elmer Kelton

Eight Kelton novels, Buffalo Wagons, The Day the Cowboys Quit, The Time It Never Rained, Eyes of the Hawk, Slaughter, The Far Canyon, Many a River and The Way of the Coyote, have won Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America.

Feilding and District Steam Rail Society

The society has restored or is presently restoring a number of locomotives and wagons once used on New Zealand's national rail network, with its star attraction currently being a tank locomotive, WAB 794.

Fire Island Pines, New York

If a person wishes to carry groceries, the traditional way to do so is to pull toy wagons (commonly the popular Radio Flyer).

Fireless locomotive

One example is the large coal-fired power station in Mannheim where coal is delivered by rail in long trains of self-discharging hopper wagons.

Fort Cummings

It was the only large supply of fresh water between Mesilla and the Mimbres River for wagons heading to California on the Southern Immigrant Trail as well as the later Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach route.

Fountain Green Massacre

The men were driving two ox-drawn wagons filled with wheat to Salt Lake City as the advance party of a larger group headed by local Manti Mormon leader Isaac Morley.

François Achille Bazaine

On 7 October, hungry and immobilised, Bazaine dispatched two 40,000 man foraging parties along both banks of the Moselle, but the Prussian guns blew the French wagons off the road and the Prussian infantry cut swathes through the desperate French soldiers with Chassepots captured at Sedan.

Heberlein brake

This causes the brake clips to be applied on individual wagons, assisted by a servo system which makes use of the rotation of the axle.

Hellenic Post

In 1834 an agreement with French banker Feraldi ensure mail service to and from the islands, and in 1836 placed the first wagons for transporting mail between Athens and Piraeus.

Hendrik Spoorbek

Spoorbek was on good terms with the Voortrekker leaders Karel Landman, Piet Uys and Gert Rainier, who left the Cape Colony with ox wagons in search for a better life in the mainland.

International Railway Systems

The company also acquired 49% of the Serbian rail holding MIN-Mašinska Industrija Niš (Mechanical Industry Niš), the largest manufacturer of wagons and locomotives in the country.

Kaiser Jeep

In 1962, Willys introduced the Jeep Wagoneer as a 1963 model to replace the 1940s-style Jeep station wagons.

Laager

During the 119 BC Battle of Mobei of the Han–Xiongnu War, the famous Han general Wei Qing used armored wagons known as "Wu Gang Wagon" (武剛車) in ring formations to neutralise the Xiongnu's cavalry charges, before launching a counteroffensive which overran the nomads.

Latil

In 1903 the firm moved to Levallois-Perret, changed the name to "Avant-train Latil" and had great success transforming all kinds of horse powered wagons.

Lawrence J. Fitzgerald

The family settled at Skaneateles, N.Y. Later he moved to Cortland, New York and in 1869, he established the Cortland Wagon Company which manfacturered carriages, wagons and bicycles.

LBE Nos. 1 to 3

During the trial only two of the 14 wagons attached at Frankfurt-Höchst arrived at Königstein, the rest had to be uncoupled en route.

Nishapur train disaster

During the cleanup operation, the cargo of the wagons exploded, reportedly the equivalent of 180 tons of TNT, which demolished Khayyam, badly damaged the nearby towns of `Eyshabad, Dehnow, Nishapur and Taqiabad, Nishapur, and could be felt in the city of Mashhad, 70 kilometers away.

Opatija tram

The tracks were removed and some of the wagons were sold to Ljubljana.

Oyster bar

During the early 1800s, express wagons filled with oysters crossed the Allegheny Mountains to reach the American Midwest.

Phoenix Row

Opened in 1825, a stationary beam engine controlled the descent of wagons that ran from the colliery to the River Gaunless.

Rail Wheel Factory

Rail Wheel Factory (RWF) at Yelahanka, Bangalore (earlier known as Wheel and Axle Plant, WAP) it was started by Shri CK Jaffer Sharief the then Railway Minister who got this project to Bangalore is a premier manufacturing unit of Indian Railways, which is engaged in the production of wheels, axles and wheel sets of railroad wagons, coaches and locomotives for the use of the Indian Railways and select overseas customers.

Reub Long

Because he was an expert at handling horse teams, Reub participated in a wild and dangerous chase scene in the movie The Indian Fighter with ten covered wagons racing across the desert.

São Paulo Railway

At each section the wagons were attached to a steel wire rope with the help of a special fitted brake van called Serrabreque (transl.: Hill Brake).

Tikhvin industrial site

In 2005 ICT Group president Alexander Nesis presented plans for a new rail wagon building plant at the Tikvin industrial site built to meet an expected demand for vehicles in Russia from private operators, as well as taking a share of the estimate 7000 wagon p.a. attrition rate of rail wagons on the Russian rail network.

Victorian Railways box vans

In 1948, wagons 1, 2, 3, 4 and 20 were stored at Tottenham Yard, with the entire remaining fleet save P 5 scrapped/recycled in 1953-54.

Victorian Railways hopper wagons

Wagons 40, 68, 92 and 126 are held by the Victorian Goldfields Railway in Maldon; 46 is at Moorooduc with the Mornington Railway Preservation Society; 66 and 125 are with the South Gippsland Railway in Korumburra; and 67 and 108 are kept at Seymour with the Seymour Railway Heritage Centre.

Woolbert's Stockade Hotel

In the summer of 1864 the area between Washington and Clay Center, Kansas, was abandoned by settlers who took refuge in a stockade made of encircled wagons in Clay Center.

World Professional Chuckwagon Association

It has been suggested that Guy Weadick saw match races at the 1922 Gleichen (Alberta) Stampede between farm wagons pulled by 4 horses.


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