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railcar

British  
/ ˈreɪlˌkɑː /

noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Staffing the train with more workers or longer railcar inspections wouldn’t have prevented the accident.

From The Wall Street Journal May 17, 2026

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 Dec. 20, 2025

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

From Salon Oct. 5, 2024

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

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 17, 2024

And he had never regretted this more deeply than he did that night when he and Bull and Lucy were discovered in the empty railcar.

From "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane" by Kate DiCamillo

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