railcar

/ ˈreɪlˌkɑː /

noun

1. a passenger-carrying railway vehicle consisting of a single coach with its own power unit

Example Sentences

They slash an air brake hose, causing the mile-long line of railcars to screech to an emergency stop.

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No longer delivered "on the hoof" to cities, cattle were now slaughtered in Chicago and sent East as tinned meat or, after the 1870s, in refrigerated railcars.

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On Feb. 3, 2023, a train carrying chemicals jumped the tracks in East Palestine, Ohio, rupturing railcars filled with hazardous materials and fueling chemical fires at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.

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And apparently you’ll be sipping that drink in a railcar that may remind you of a spacecraft interior.

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By roving the station platforms, fare ambassadors can check more people than if scrambling through a crowded railcar, spokesperson Rachelle Cunningham said.

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