Нужен хороший перевод этого текста, unit vii flat cars and containers the flat car is considered to be the simplest type of freight cars, for it is a platform mounted on two-axle trucks of four, six and eight wheels without sides or ends above the floor. flat cars are used to carry large pieces of machinery, iron and steel products and other bulky materials, some conventional flat cars being fitted with special hoods for moving coiled steel. bulkhead type flat car available now should be used for moving pipes, poles and similar long articles which formerly were difficult to transport because of their tendency to shift, this disadvantage being overcome by application of end-of—car cushioning to flat cars. some flat cars of special type are utilized to transport highway trailers. as a rule, all these cars are about 90 feet in length to handle two highway trailers. this practice is called piggy-back service. another type is the container car. it is a flat or gondola car carrying removable containers (usually huge boxes) which can be lifted from the car and set upon a motor truck. goods are packed into a container at a factory or warehouse, the container is carried by truck to the ear, hauled by rail and taken by truck to the final destination. the container car re- duces the time spent on loading and unloading cars at freight stations and lessens the danger of loss or breakage of goods. if russia had had a large fleet of high-capacity containers used in special high-speed container trains, the russian freight turnover would have been considerably in- creased.