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- 1. American POWs AF Museum: U.S. Air Force photo· Public domain
what is it?
Forty-and-Eight boxcars (French: Quarante et huit), commonly referred to as Forty-and-Eights, were types of French boxcars (voiture) used by the French Army and Wehrmacht. British and American troops were transported to the Western Front in the boxcars marked with "40-8" to denote their capacity: 40 men or 8 horses.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
spec sheet
- built
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- number built
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- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- builders
- Unknown builder
- operators
- French Army, Wehrmacht
- top speed
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- power
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- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- weight
- 7.9 t
- capacity
- 40 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16981261, Wikipedia: Forty-and-eights (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.