Categories
  Encyclosphere.org ENCYCLOREADER
  supported by EncyclosphereKSF

Hood (rail transport)

Topic: Engineering

 From HandWiki - Reading time: 2 min

A steel coil car owned by Norfolk Southern Railway. The load is covered by a hood

A hood is a rigid cover to protect a load on a flat wagon, gondola or a coil car.[1] Gondola hoods developed from loose tarpaulin covers that were deemed unsatisfactory in damp climates;[2] but tarpaulins are still used as hoods in some cases.[3] For some gondola loads, hoods made of fiberglass were sufficient.[4] The hoods on coil cars were originally permanently attached to the cars when they were developed in the mid-20th century.[5]

Hoods could also be mounted on wheels enabling them to slide out of the way toward one end of the car for loading.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "(untitled)". Chesapeake & Ohio Historical Newsletter (Chesapeake & Ohio Historical Society) 14-17: xiv. 1982. https://books.google.com/books?id=9PtWAAAAYAAJ&q=coil+car+hood&dq=coil+car+hood&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi1-7nY8PbcAhUG54MKHZTWAFIQ6AEIVzAJ. 
  2. ↑ "(untitled)". The Railway Age (Chicago) XXXIV (17): 416. October 24, 1902. https://books.google.com/books?id=n8A6AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA416&dq=%22covered+gondola%22+rail&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjG1dSN9vbcAhUYoYMKHZNXAm8Q6AEIODAD#v=onepage&q=%22covered%20gondola%22%20rail&f=false. 
  3. ↑ Heinrich Schnelting, Hugo Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing. Lemmer, Union0 609 655 AI European Union patent 0 609 655 AI, issued 1997-05-07, assigned to WAGGONFABRIK TALBOT GMBH & CO.KG
  4. ↑ "D.5.1.1 Site to Site on Rail". Draft Environmental Impact Statement - Niagara Falls Storage Area, Long Term Management of the Existing Radioactive Wastes and Residues at the Niagara Falls Storage Site. Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Energy. August 1984. p. D-13. https://books.google.com/books?id=LfQxAQAAMAAJ&pg=SL4-PA13&dq=%22covered+gondola%22+rail&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjG1dSN9vbcAhUYoYMKHZNXAm8Q6AEIPTAE#v=onepage&q=%22covered%20gondola%22%20rail&f=false. 
  5. ↑ "(untitled)". Headlight (Public Relations Department, New York Central Railroad) 23-28: 73. 1962. https://books.google.com/books?id=UfllAAAAIAAJ&q=%22coil+car%22+hood&dq=%22coil+car%22+hood&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjN4qPC8fbcAhVG94MKHWmUAAAQ6AEILTAB. 
  6. ↑ Karl-Dieter Reemtsema, Peter Wackermann, Guenter Ahlborn, Gerhard Kampmann, "Railroad Freight Car", States4,986,707 United States patent 4,986,707, issued 1991-01-22, assigned to Waggon Union GmbH




Retrieved from "https://handwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Engineering:Hood_(rail_transport)&oldid=760219"
Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 | Source: https://handwiki.org/wiki/Engineering:Hood_(rail_transport)
35 views | Status: cached on January 19 2026 23:37:47
↧ Download this article as ZWI file
Encyclosphere.org EncycloReader is supported by the EncyclosphereKSF