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Freight car   /freɪt kɑr/   Listen
Freight car

noun
1.
A railway car that carries freight.






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"Freight car" Quotes from Famous Books



... Campbell, of Ohio, and Abraham Payne, of Rhode Island. Richard H. Dana was present, but I think he did not speak. William Lloyd Garrison and Francis Jackson were present, but took no part whatever. I rode to Boston in a freight car after the convention was over, late at night. Garrison and Jackson were sitting together and talking to a group of friends. Garrison seemed much delighted with the day's work, but said he heard too much ...
— Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 • George Hoar

... of that there forty mile of track. The G. and B. gits the use of the state, so to speak, without payin' a fair rent for it. You draw up a bill pervidin' that the railroad has got to pay a fee of, say a dollar, for every passenger car it runs over them forty miles, and fifty cents for every freight car. That'll mount to a ...
— Scattergood Baines • Clarence Budington Kelland

... and the balers, atop the lumbering machine, caroled loudly if not musically as the fat horses dragged them slowly up the lane. Neat bales of hay were piled high on the barn floor, to be carted over to Hagar's Corners and loaded on a freight car. That would be Ethan's job, and he grumbled at the prospect of doing ...
— Betty Gordon in Washington • Alice B. Emerson

... freight car stood on the outer track a hundred yards away. Its open door offered the only means of concealment that she had. She believed that the bushes were high enough still to shield her while ...
— The Perils of Pauline • Charles Goddard

... a bad collision," said Daddy Martin. "Our engine hit a freight car that was on a side track, but too close to our rails to be passed safely. It jarred up our engine and the front cars quite a bit, and our engine is off the track, but no ...
— The Curlytops at Uncle Frank's Ranch • Howard R. Garis



Words linked to "Freight car" :   tank, coal car, car, gondola car, refrigerator car, cattle car, railroad car, tank car, boxcar, flatcar, freight train, flatbed, railway car, railcar, flat, rattler, gondola



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