baggage car

noun

1. a car of a passenger train in which luggage, trunks, etc., are carried.

Word History and Origins

Origin of baggage car¹

An Americanism dating back to 1825–35

Example Sentences

The train had eight cars, including a baggage car, Dunn said.

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Not only did Edison set up a chemistry lab in the baggage car, but he also built a printing press for an original newspaper he created, "The Grand Trunk Herald."

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Others helped unload the baggage car near the front of the train.

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That’s because his win here in 2019 not only shocked everyone but removed 11 years of injury, controversy, failure and self-doubt: a whole baggage car of burdens, unloaded with one win.

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There, the crate was shoved into a baggage car, where Brown fell on his side before being pushed head down again aboard the steamer to Philadelphia.

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