Articles on Rolling Stock, Including - Diesel Multiple Unit, Railroad Car, Caboose, Brake Van, Bilevel Rail Car, Tender (Rail), Steam Dummy, Passenger Car (Rail), Transporter Wagon, Circus Train, Married Pair, Railbox, Power Car (Paperback)


Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Hephaestus Books represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Hephaestus Books continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge. This particular book is a collaboration focused on Rolling stock.More info: Rolling stock comprises all the vehicles that move on a railway. It usually includes both powered and unpowered vehicles, for example locomotives, railroad cars, coaches and wagons. Rolling stock is considered to be a liquid asset, or close to it, since the value of the vehicle can be readily estimated and then shipped to the buyer without much cost or delay. However, the term is sometimes used to refer only to non-powered vehicles; specifically, excluding locomotives which may be referred to as running stock or motive power.

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Hephaestus Books represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Hephaestus Books continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge. This particular book is a collaboration focused on Rolling stock.More info: Rolling stock comprises all the vehicles that move on a railway. It usually includes both powered and unpowered vehicles, for example locomotives, railroad cars, coaches and wagons. Rolling stock is considered to be a liquid asset, or close to it, since the value of the vehicle can be readily estimated and then shipped to the buyer without much cost or delay. However, the term is sometimes used to refer only to non-powered vehicles; specifically, excluding locomotives which may be referred to as running stock or motive power.

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Imprint

Hephaestus Books

Country of origin

United States

Release date

August 2011

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First published

August 2011

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Dimensions

246 x 189 x 10mm (L x W x T)

Format

Paperback - Trade

Pages

190

ISBN-13

978-1-243-28023-7

Barcode

9781243280237

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LSN

1-243-28023-9



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