Big Boys didn't pull passenger cars, they were built to haul heavy long freight trains over the Wasach Mountains.
Todd Sullivan has written: 'One Hour' 'NP color guide to freight and passenger equipment' -- subject(s): Cars, Northern Pacific Railroad Company, Painting, Railroads
David G. Casdorph has written: 'General Electric's Shortline Box Cars' 'Molten sulphur tank cars' -- subject(s): Liquid sulphur, Tank cars 'Woodchip cars' -- subject(s): Railroads, Freight-cars, Wood chips 'ADM Freight Cars 2005' 'Modern 45-foot railroad trailers' -- subject(s): Railroads, Piggyback trailers, Pictorial works, Rolling-stock 'Double stack data book' -- subject(s): Freight-cars, Railroads, Containerization 'Pressurized covered hoppers' -- subject(s): Freight-cars, Railroads 'Southern Pacific freight cars today' -- subject(s): Freight-cars, Railroads, Southern Pacific Railroad Company 'Box cars since 1983' -- subject(s): Freight-cars, Railroads 'Norfolk Southern freight cars today' -- subject(s): Freight cars, Norfolk Southern Railway Company, Railroads 'U.P. freight cars, 1995-96' -- subject(s): Freight-cars, Railroads, Union Pacific Railroad Company 'Modern Union Pacific grain hoppers' -- subject(s): Freight cars, Railroads, Union Pacific Railroad Company 'Modern box car types' -- subject(s): Freight-cars, Railroads
William L. Glick has written: 'Passenger cars of the Burlington, 1869 to 1930's' -- subject(s): Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, Passenger-cars, Railroads
A railroad depot is a place with multiple sets of railroad tracks. Trains going from and to different places can switch cars in and out. At a passenger depot, passengers can buy tickets, load baggage, check schedules, etc.
Easy one....as long as they want!
As of June 2010. 8350 Locomotives and 83197 Freight cars.
Refrigerated (cold) rail cars (:
No. However, they did use the term 'cars' to mean railroad cars.
hopper cars
An adhesion railroad, unlike a cog railroad, is limited to grades of four to six percent. Freight trains typically operate on railroads with gradients under one and a half percent. While commuter or passenger cars are able to handle some steeper gradients but not like that of a cog railroad which can be upwards of forty five percent.
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Common usage on Canadian National Rail for a line of railroad cars is a "cut of cars". The term most used in the US is a "consist" or a "string of cars". Once the loco ties up, it is, of course, a train.