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Apr 11, 2012 19:01
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French term

wacs

French to English Tech/Engineering Transport / Transportation / Shipping Rail track construction and maintenance
Equipment used by a company (from a profile of the company "Européenne de Travaux Ferroviaires", see http://mecateamcluster.org/?pg=membres&id=54):

"Principaux équipement de productions

Surface atelier
5000 m2

Parc machine
Parc matériel d'une centaine d'engins

Equipements spécifiques
Trains de substitution, dégarnisseuses, bourreuses, poutre, bigrues, régaleuses, stabilisateurs, locomotives, clam, WAD, pelles rail route, portiques, sondeuses de plateforme, ***wacs***, chargeurs, train bicyclette."
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wagons auto-chargeurs = self-loading wagons

Self-Loading Wagons - Malone Engineering malone-engineering.com/loading_wagon.htmCached
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Malone Engineering is a farm equipment manufacturer based in Co. Mayo, with supplier all over Ireland.
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neutral philgoddard : Maybe, but your reference is to farm equipment.
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shucks - but it is correct
agree Sheila Wilson : This is a railway-related ref: http://rail-bretagne.aceboard.fr/237765-11353-9143-0-savenay...
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neutral kashew : Why WAD in caps and not WACs?
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ballast conveyors

Bande de transport de Ballast dite "WAC"

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See http://www.forum.sttx.fr/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=2045
i.e. units fitted onto wagons

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But maybe special wagons as Polyglot says, so "conveyor wagons" is another description.
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