Since Terry's pioneer book on Union Pacific freight cars appeared, similar volumes have been written on the cars of several other railroads.
The system requires railroads to shift freight cars at 12 miles per hour between 57 rail yards around the area.
On the return trip the empty cars are handled like any other freight car in captive service.
A covered freight car, the kind that often carries automobiles, suffered slight damage.
Chalk was important to yard operations for without it switching freight cars in marshalling yards would have been slower and much more difficult.
The woman was turning her vehicle in the wide freight car to face the open double doors.
Self-propelled freight cars could be used for a direct point-to-point delivery of small freight quantities.
All of these images are from the sides of boxcars, coal cars, miscellaneous freight cars and a caboose.
I slid open the sliding door of the freight car we were traveling in.
Two steel car ferries were ordered in 1889, each capable of carrying 16 freight cars on two tracks.
The common gondola car is a freight car with low sides and ends, a solid floor, and no roof.
More than 4000 gallons of diesel fuel were spilled from a freight car; firefighters prevented a disastrous blaze from igniting.
The daily number of loaded freight cars is an important index to the efficiency and economic benefits of railway freight transport, said an official with the ministry.
It is believed that the pig might have escaped from a freight car.
A man who never graduated from school might steal from a freight car.
Except for very short runs on main tracks, remote-controlled locomotives are almost exclusively confined to switching yards where freight cars are assembled into trains.
And inside the building was a roomful of clerks, who handled the paperwork that accompanied every freight car on its trip across the country.
Extended sills are sometimes installed below freight doors to narrow the gap between the building and the freight car.
The diesel has four times the mass of the freight car.
Ford felt like he was trying to push a freight car.
Definition of freight car in US English:
freight car
nounˈfreɪt ˌkɑrˈfrāt ˌkär
North American
A railroad car for carrying freight.
Example sentencesExamples
And inside the building was a roomful of clerks, who handled the paperwork that accompanied every freight car on its trip across the country.
It is believed that the pig might have escaped from a freight car.
Except for very short runs on main tracks, remote-controlled locomotives are almost exclusively confined to switching yards where freight cars are assembled into trains.
Chalk was important to yard operations for without it switching freight cars in marshalling yards would have been slower and much more difficult.
Since Terry's pioneer book on Union Pacific freight cars appeared, similar volumes have been written on the cars of several other railroads.
The system requires railroads to shift freight cars at 12 miles per hour between 57 rail yards around the area.
The woman was turning her vehicle in the wide freight car to face the open double doors.
All of these images are from the sides of boxcars, coal cars, miscellaneous freight cars and a caboose.
Self-propelled freight cars could be used for a direct point-to-point delivery of small freight quantities.
A covered freight car, the kind that often carries automobiles, suffered slight damage.
The diesel has four times the mass of the freight car.
On the return trip the empty cars are handled like any other freight car in captive service.
I slid open the sliding door of the freight car we were traveling in.
The common gondola car is a freight car with low sides and ends, a solid floor, and no roof.
Two steel car ferries were ordered in 1889, each capable of carrying 16 freight cars on two tracks.
More than 4000 gallons of diesel fuel were spilled from a freight car; firefighters prevented a disastrous blaze from igniting.
Ford felt like he was trying to push a freight car.
Extended sills are sometimes installed below freight doors to narrow the gap between the building and the freight car.
A man who never graduated from school might steal from a freight car.
The daily number of loaded freight cars is an important index to the efficiency and economic benefits of railway freight transport, said an official with the ministry.