Sentence examples for empty wagon from inspiring English sources

One morning he and his father drove from farmhouse to farmhouse in an empty wagon in search of hay.

The axle load of a wagon is the total wagon weight (empty wagon weight + load on the wagon) resting on the axle.

On freight trains, where the difference between the tare and fully loaded vehicle masses could be in the order of 300 % (from 20 to 30 t/vehicle for the empty wagon to 90 t/vehicle for the fully loaded one), load sensing is very important.

He taught me that, "An empty wagon makes a lot of noise".

São Paulo accounts for more than a third of Brazil's gross domestic product, a situation that in the past has prompted some business leaders here to complain that their state is "a locomotive pulling 26 empty wagons".

One of Binani's most innovative initiatives in this has been to convince Indian Railways to allow it to use the empty wagons that go back to ports in West India after delivering their cargo.

One horse could pull five or six empty wagons at about 3 kph.

The original line fanned out into a set of three sidings, used to marshal trains of loaded slate wagons coming down from the quarry and empty wagons waiting to ascend.

I like to drop by, with an empty station wagon, to get a little inspiration for my own containers.

The railway was therefore no longer needed to transport coal; the last load was delivered on 10 March 1959, and the empty coal wagon returned to Hellingly on 25 March 1959.

Over that period he reckons he travelled around 50,000 miles by train, hiding in empty freight wagons as America sped by.