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There were only three passenger-cars on the train, and, judging from the scarcity of occupants, one would have been enough.

From Kitty's Conquest by King, Charles

We worked until long past midnight before we got the horses and baggage aboard, and then found that for some reason the passenger-cars were delayed and would not be out for some hours.

From The Rough Riders by Roosevelt, Theodore

The Pintsch gas, used to some extent in railroad passenger-cars in this country, is an oil-gas produced by the destructive distillation of petroleum or other mineral oil in retorts heated externally.

From Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization by Luckiesh, Matthew

He had made most handsome passenger-cars with full equipment of brakes, vestibules, Pintsch gas, and so on, and had painted on their sides "The Great Pullman Line."

From Twelve Men by Dreiser, Theodore

Three cars back from the tender the coupling-pin was drawn out, as the load of passenger-cars would only have been an incumbrance.

From Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. by Pittenger, William