Gondola car

A gondola car is intended for the transport of Marchandise S in bulk. This name of Tombereau comes to him from the case which it carries.

The transported goods are rather varied: scrap with household waste while passing by the shavings. The coaches are often adapted to the transported goods. Thus, the coaches with ballast, like the specimen given in illustration, are entirely metal and have reinforcements. They are also relatively low. On the contrary, the coaches with sawdust are higher and have a system of covering.

In spite of their various specialities, the gondola cars are consisted of the same manner. In addition to the frame and the bodies of traction, it consist of a case out of wooden or metal (majority currently). For the operations of handling, these coaches are generally equipped with doors with double-leaf. The axle coaches generally comprise a door by face, those with bogies comprise two of them. All the tipcarts have hooks making it possible to cover the coach or to fix a net for empécher that certain objects have suddenly engaged the gauge of the way.

Historically, the gondola cars belong to the initial park of much of companies. Just as the covered trucks, their use is in constant fall because of reduction in the goods in bulk. In the past, the appearance of the coaches hoppers, facilitating the operations of unloading had already contributed to the elimination of the simple gondola cars.

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