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English translation: flatcar

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German term or phrase:	Rollschemel
English translation:	flatcar
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14:28 Apr 13, 2010

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Tech/Engineering - Transport / Transportation / Shipping / Types of freight rolling stock

German term or phrase: Rollschemmel

Calling all trainspotters. This mystery term come from a list of types of rolling stock, with no context given, I'm afraid.
Here's a picture of the gizmo concerned:
http://www.beretta-modelle.ch/body_uaai_17_602.html
Lots of points to anyone who can come up with an adequate English name for it.
Ta.

translate cc KudoZ activity Questions: 8 (1 open) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 35 United Kingdom
Local time: 09:49

Flatcar

Explanation:
This is flatcar (sic) which might qualify as a heavy-duty flatcar, because of the beamed sides.

Selected response from:

Ken Baddley
United Kingdom
Local time: 09:49

Grading comment

Yes, that's the one (though with a single "m", as Steffen Walter pointed out)
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +5

Flatcar

Ken Baddley

low-loader or piggyback wagon

polyglot45

2 +1

rolling-road waggon

Bernd Runge

carrier truck

gangels

Discussion entries: 3

Answers

9 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

rolling-road waggon

Explanation:
The picture you referenced had the identifier SBB Nr.: Uaai 84 85 99 17 602-3 and is also called Niederflurwagen which is referred to as rolling-road waggon on http://www.tis-gdv.de/tis/taz/n/niederflurwagen.htm and gets sufficient number of g-picture-hits.

Bernd Runge
Germany
Local time: 10:49
Native speaker of:

German
PRO pts in category: 58

22 mins confidence:

low-loader or piggyback wagon

Explanation:
is the terminology I'm used to for a Niederflurwagon

polyglot45
Native speaker of:

English,

French
PRO pts in category: 54

24 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +5

Flatcar

Explanation:
This is flatcar (sic) which might qualify as a heavy-duty flatcar, because of the beamed sides.

Example sentence(s):

1) 2 German Railroad, Inc. (DB AG) type Rlmmps 651 heavy duty flat cars.
A flatcar (also flat car) is a piece of railroad rolling stock that consists of an open, flat deck on four or six wheels or a pair of trucks (US) or bogies (UK). The deck of the car can be wood or steel, and the sides of the deck can include pockets for s

Reference: http://www.eurorailhobbies.com/erh_detail.asp?mn=1&stock=487...
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatcar

Ken Baddley
United Kingdom
Local time: 09:49
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

Yes, that's the one (though with a single "m", as Steffen Walter pointed out)

2 hrs confidence:

carrier truck

Explanation:
News 2nd quarter 2000
It has been fitted with the metre gauge bogies formerly part of carrier truck ( rollschemel) Ua 9857 which was purchased by the LSE from the SBB Brünig line. ...
www.rail-info.ch/news/news.00.3.en.html

I guess in the US it is a 'shunting carriage' (but not a flatbed railcar)

gangels
Local time: 02:49
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English,

German
PRO pts in category: 44

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