freight car Meaning & Definition

  • En [ ˈfreɪt ˌkɑːr]
  • Us [ ˈfreɪt ˌkɑːr]

Meaning of freight car In English

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Examples of freight car

  • A line of freight cars, two miles in length, stood upon the railway. 

  • For the freight cars of that day, ten tons made a load, and with the light locomotives and iron rails then in use, twenty or thirty cars made a full train. 

  • He found a pile of old bagging in one end of the freight car and sat down to rest. 

  • The coach in which Henry sat was attached to the end of a long string of freight cars. 

  • The three of them walked down the tracks where the freight cars had stood before being hauled away. 

  • Because the car was supplied by the contracting railroad, it was usually of the cheapest possible construction, often being a retooled wooden freight car.

  • It also provides freight car management services (information and accounting).

  • No one was hurt, but four freight car loads of freight were already on board, and these were also destroyed.

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