railcar

British

/ ˈreɪlˌkɑː /

noun

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

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Maybe it was the rattling of the railcar, but I was having a hard time sitting still for such a long journey.

From Literature

FRANKFURT—Across Germany, railcar factories are being retooled to build military vehicles, auto suppliers are joining with defense contractors, and former soldiers are suddenly hot commodities in the jobs market.

From The Wall Street Journal

Most of the railcar exchanges between Western and Eastern carriers take place at interchanges in Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis or New Orleans.

From The Wall Street Journal

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.

From Salon

Our tests weeks later revealed that railcar chemicals had even penetrated the business’s silicone wristband products on its shelves.

From Salon

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