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Definition of Gondola car
1. Noun. A low flat-bottomed freight car with fixed sides but no roof.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gondola Car
Literary usage of Gondola car
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Car Builders' Cyclopedia of American Practice by Master Car Builders' Association (1906)
"OO gondola car, eight-wheel, drop-bottom, 40 tons capacity or over 330.00 ...
Coal car, ordinary, complete 220.00 Box car, complete 255.00 gondola car, ..."
2. The Science of Railways by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (1909)
"gondola car, eight-wheel, hopper-bottom, 20 tons capacity or less $?20.00 Gondola
car, ... 50 tons capacity and over 350.00 gondola car, eight-wheel plain, ..."
3. The Science of Railways by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (1911)
"Gondola oar, eight-wheel, hopper-bottom, 20 tons capacity or less 1220.00 Gondola
car, eight-wheel, plain, 50 tons capacity and over 350.00 gondola car, ..."
4. Car Builders' Cyclopedia of American Practice by American Railway Association, Master Car Builders' Association, Mechanical Division, Association of American Railroads (1903)
"200.00 gondola car, eight wheel, plain, 40 tons capacity and over 275.00 Gondola
car, eight wheel, plain, 30 tons capacity, but under 40 tons 250.00 Gondola ..."
5. Steel Rails: Their History, Properties, Strength and Manufacture, with Notes by William Hamilton Sellew (1913)
"gondola car. Wooden Body. Pressed Steel Underframe. Capacity 100000 Ibs.
Weight 44500 Ibs. The proposed use of 80-ton freight cars with four-wheel trucks ..."
6. Handbook of Construction Cost by Halbert Powers Gillette (1922)
"The cars unloaded were as follows: - Etib gondola car gondola car 84 gondola car
113 Flat car 11$ Total $4 The time required for unloading was 3 hrs. ..."
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