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LO-PAC 2000 [1 record]

Record 1 2011-05-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Trade Names
  • Rolling Stock (Railroads)
DEF

A car with a depressed loading area for the trailer or container. ... Budd's prototype can handle either containers, up to 40 feet with nose-length, or trailers, up to 45 feet with nose or bottom-mount refrigeration units. The only highway units the car can't take are drop-frame trailers and trailers with bogies more than eight feet wide.

CONT

Budd has come up with the Lo-Pac 2000, a multiunit, articulated well car that will handle both trailers and containers and will allow movement of TOFC [trailer on flat car] shipments "through even the most restrictive overhead clearance areas ..

OBS

A trademark of Budd Company.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations commerciales
  • Matériel roulant (Chemins de fer)
OBS

Lo-Pac 2000MC : Marque de commerce de Budd Company.

Spanish

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