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[. . . ] Whether building your first model, or if you have or been developing for years, this encyclopedia will help you make the right decisions. As you develop your railroad step-by-step, it is always helpful to step-byknow the what's, why's and how's of operation of each piece and how it all fits together. This is your solution! Table of contents Ø Know your Trains!Freight Cars Passenger Cars Ø Know your Accessories! [. . . ] ends angle out at the top and the other is that the bottom has several Vseveral Vshapes sticking out between the trucks. This is because hoppers are designed to carry loose materials and dump them out through the bottom. So the angled So upper sides help gravity channel the loads out when the spouts i n the bottom in are opened. Know your Cars! Encyclopedia Information for Freight Cars Hoppers - Page 2/2 There are two kinds of hoppers, open and covered. The open hoppers are hoppers used to haul coal, sand, gravel, woodchips, and the like. Ore cars are shortercars shorterlength open hoppers for carrying heavy metallic ores that weigh too much for regular size hoppers. Covered hoppers are used for materials that require that protection from weather: grain, plastic pellets, concrete mix, chemicals. Hoppers are often used in unit train service. Coal and ore trains service mines trains and factories year-round, while every harvest season sees long trains of yearcovered hoppers hauling grain from farms to grain elevators and food processing plants. Know your Cars! Encyclopedia Information for Freight Cars Tank Cars - Page 1/1 Tank cars are like a tin can on wheels. They hold liquid or slushy materials, slushy such as oil, chemicals, corn syrup, or kaolin mud (a type of wet dirt used to make magazine paper shiny). Tankers come in a variety of sizes and with and different numbers of domes on the roof depending on what materials they are materials to transport. A large volume of tank cars travel up and down the Mississippi river valley to the chemical plants on the Gulf of Mexico. These cars were full fullfledged post offices on wheels, with workers sorting mail as the train rolled down the line. At station stops, people could walk up to the car and mail letters by dropping them in a slot on the outside of the car. For stations where For the train did not stop, a mailbag was thrown off the car, for the stationmaster the to provide to the local postman. The stationmaster could also hang outgoing hang mailbags on a pole, for the passing RPO to pick up with a hook, carrying the mail on its way. Know your Cars! Encyclopedia Information for Passenger Cars Types of Passenger Cars ­ Page 3/7 For many years the railroads did a profitable business in "express, " meaning "express, " individual packages that need to be delivered quickly. Many passenger trains passenger carried a reefer car at the head end, to handle express packages, usually for packages, the Railway Express Agency, a company owned by several railroads that offered overnight package delivery, similar to Federal Express or United or Parcel Service (UPS) today. Coaches are the most common kind of passenger car. Coaches have a row of of seats on either side of a central aisle and are the lowest-cost cars to ride on. lowestTypically, a restroom is provided at each end of a coach. Know your Cars! Encyclopedia Information for Passenger Cars Types of Passenger Cars ­ Page 4/7 Diners are cars where passengers can eat a meal. During the first half of the 20th Century, railroads vied to offer the most luxurious dining service to their passengers. Fine china, gourmet meals, lace tablecloths, and wai ters in white waiters tuxedos gave passengers the royal treatment. Today's diners are decidedly less fancy, but still offer hot meals on wheels to travellers. The kitchen or The galley on board a diner is a masterpiece of efficient design, allowing full meals allowing to be prepared in a space about the size of a walk-in closet. [. . . ] In the Whyte In system, locomotives are designated by wheel arrangements, with t he number the of wheels on the lead truck, drive wheels, and trailing truck wheels separated wheels by hyphens. Engines with the same wheel arrangements also shared many running characteristics and were assigned similar jobs. Most arrangements arrangements also received nicknames reflecting the first appearance of the designs. For example, a 4-6-2 has four wheels behind the cowcatcher, six drivers, and 4two wheels under the firebox. [. . . ]