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Definition of Flatcars
1. flatcar [n] - See also: flatcar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flatcars
Literary usage of Flatcars
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Intermodal Freight Transportation: Combined Rail-Truck Service Offers Public (1993)
"... Figure 2.2: Intermodal flatcars Intermodal Rail Transportation Has Shown
Significant Promise in Recent Years Two ..."
2. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"The first shipment we pass is an infantry battalion—first ten flatcars loaded with
... After the flatcars come thirty box cars, all decorated with green ..."
3. The New York Times Current History of the European War (1915)
"The first shipment we pass is an infantry battalion-—first ten flatcars loaded with
... After the flatcars come thirty box cars, all decorated with green ..."
4. Proceedings of the Forty-Fifth Annual Ohio Transportation Engineering Conference (1993)
"TTX is a company owned by the railroads which it services with a pool of flatcars.
We were known as Trailer Train Company until July 1, 1991. ..."
5. E.H. Harriman: A Biography by George Kennan (1922)
"... so the Southern Pacific engineers determined to build two railway trestles of
ninety-foot piles across the break, and then, with a thousand flatcars and ..."
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