铝合金铁道车辆又有新的发展,除客车、漏斗车和罐车外,现已有不少煤车采用了铝合金车体(如南非铁路的70吨铝合金煤车已编在固定编组的列车中运用)。美国圣太菲铁路也在积极发展铝合金煤车,并对一辆原型车进行了结构试验和编入固定编组列车运用考验。这种铝合金煤车称为Algola,是由总部设在瑞士的Alusuisse公司研制的(美国的Alusuisse In addition to passenger cars, hoppers and tankers, there are already many coal cars using aluminum body (such as South Africa’s railway 70 tons of aluminum coal cars have been compiled in a fixed group of trains In use). The United States Santa Fe Railway is also actively developing aluminum alloy coal car, and a prototype of the structure of the vehicle was tested and incorporated into a fixed grouping train test. This aluminum alloy car, called Algola, was developed by Alusuisse, headquartered in Switzerland (Alusuisse, USA)