railroad car

railroad car
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  • Railroad car — A railroad car or railway carriage is a vehicle on a rail transport system (railroad or railway) that is used for the carrying of cargo or passengers. Cars can be coupled together into a train and hauled by one or more locomotive. Passenger cars… …   Wikipedia

  • railroad car — noun a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad three cars had jumped the rails • Syn: ↑car, ↑railcar, ↑railway car • Hypernyms: ↑wheeled vehicle • Hyponyms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • railroad car — In common usage, a vehicle running on a railroad track and used for the transportation of persons or goods, merchandise, and other articles. Precisely, any vehicle adapted to the rails of a railroad track, whether a passenger car, freight car,… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • railroad car — noun Any railroad vehicle that is not a locomotive. Syn: rolling stock, railcar …   Wiktionary

  • Private railroad car — A private railroad car, private railway coach, private car or private varnish is a railroad passenger car which was either originally built or later converted for non revenueFact|date=June 2008 service as a business car for private individuals. A …   Wikipedia

  • Washington and Georgetown Railroad Car House — U.S. National Register of Historic Places …   Wikipedia

  • Tender (railroad car) — Steam locomotives often haul a tender, which is a special railway truck (railroad car in American usage) designed to hold the locomotive s fuel (wood, coal, or oil) and water. In America, tenders are sometimes called coal cars. Steam locomotives… …   Wikipedia

  • The Survivor (Railroad Car) — The Survivor is a private railroad car built by the American Car and Foundry Company in 1926 for Jesse Woolworth, the heiress to F.W. Woolworth.The car was named Japauldon for her late husband, James Paul Donahue. The car was used by the… …   Wikipedia

  • Castle Peak Railroad Car — The Castle Peak railway dining car was built in 1927 by American Car and Foundry for the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad.It is currently owned and displayed by the Joshua Tree and Southern Railroad Museum near Palm Springs,… …   Wikipedia

  • Car spotting (positioning) — Car spotting is precise positioning of a railroad car for loading/unloading.When a locomotive pulls a train of freight cars to a loading/unloading station, it approximately positions them with respect to freight handling equipment, since… …   Wikipedia

  • Aeolus Railroad Car — One of the early experiments in railroad cars, the yachtlike Aeolus, named in honor of Aeolus from mythology, was designed to sail before the wind. It was tried on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1830. On one occasion the Aeolus failed to stop …   Wikipedia


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