Your average pickup truck might be able to tow a few tons, but a semi-truck can tow close to 30. A train car, though, is another order of magnitude heavier still, with some exceeding 150 tons.

A couple of strips of steel, some wooden ties and gravel ballast to keep everything in ... made it possible to build ever-larger railcars. Freight cars operating on North American railways these ...

In 1997, as I was writing an article about ballast, Sandy said ... my dad bought me a 1952 Lionel No. 119 Scout 3 Car Freight set for Christmas. He had fastened the track to a small board ...

The products which it may expect to carry are what Americans would call low-grade freight -- grain ... a transfer from the Russian five-foot gage cars to the standard gage cars at the European ...

After building several freight car kits, and a couple scratchbuilt cars ... Cement a single piece of track across the center ...

the design of the G5 vessels has a completely customized internal configuration enabling them to transport 4,700 linear metres of rolling freight, 2,500 CEU (Car Equivalent Units) and 2,000 TEU ...

More than a decade ago, the now-80-year-old retired electrical engineer began building what he calls the Belleville and ...

The second part of our preview of InnoTrans in Berlin, profiling the key exhibitor highlights at the world's railway industry ...

Commuters travelling between Metz, Thionville, Esch-sur-Alzette and Luxembourg’s capital are once again able to make their ...

Outside its doors on Ballarat Street, cars have been banished and replaced ... and state government acknowledge the level crossing and freight traffic heading to the nearby port as an ongoing ...

Old rock foundations under tracks are being dug out — they are usually a metre deep — and replaced; new ballast (stone ... A third main line for freight is under construction in South Auckland.

That Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting Odisha on his birthday on September 17 when he will  launch the state ...