rolling stock

Noun

Meaning

collection of wheeled vehicles owned by a railroad or motor carrier

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Alternative names

rolling-stock

Synonyms

dram equipment flyer choo-choo electric stock train vehicle express underground elevated freight carriage compartment funicular

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Antonyms

common general sleeping car passenger train passenger car dining car

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Hypernyms

wheeled vehicle

Examples

A new train on a new line The new service, named Shinkansen (meaning new trunk line) would provide a new alignment, 25% wider standard gauge, continuously welded rails between Tokyo and Osaka using new rolling stock, designed for convert. Source: Internet

Additionally, a Smart Yard is likely to be introduced for maintenance of rolling stock. Source: Internet

After World War II, in an attempt to overcome the difference in gauges and speed up traffic, a bogie exchange device lifted freight wagons and carriages allowing workers to refit rolling stock with different gauged wheel-sets. Source: Internet

Although a few manufacturers make rolling stock that can adjust to different rail gauges, most manufacturers make rolling stock that only works with one of the standard rail gauges. Source: Internet

As private passenger services declined because of competition from automobiles and airlines, they became shareholders of Amtrak either with a cash entrance fee or relinquishing their locomotives and rolling stock. Source: Internet

But by 2012, the high-speed rail boom had renewed with new lines and new rolling stock by domestic producers that had indigenized foreign technology. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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