rolling stock

Historical Examples of rolling stock

• A large amount of rolling-stock was lying there, as five freight trains had brought up material for the new bridge the day before.

  The Half-Hearted

  John Buchan

• Here was a great deal of rolling-stock—scores of cars and many engines.

  Through Siberia and Manchuria By Rail

  Oliver George Ready

• It would have grieved the management to hear this faithful employé's denunciation of that particular item of their rolling-stock.

  Ray's Daughter

  Charles King

• The railway is ably managed, but when I travelled on it in 1904 much of the rolling-stock needed renewal.

  The Philippine Islands

  John Foreman

• The track and rolling-stock of the Sabana railway are, as might be expected, of the most primitive kind.

  Up the Orinoco and down the Magdalena

  H. J. Mozans