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Definition of Cabin car

1. Noun. A car on a freight train for use of the train crew; usually the last car on the train.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cabin Car

Literary usage of Cabin car

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1906)
"If the conductor misinterpreted the telegram of the superintendent, and placed the injured car before, when 'he should have placed it behind, the cabin car, ..."

2. The Car-builder's Dictionary: An Illustrated Vocabulary of Terms which by Master Car-Builders' Association, Matthias Nace Forney, Arthur Mellen Wellington, Leander Garey, Calvin A. Smith (1906)
"cabin car. Figs. 86, 511-517. A term sometimes applied to Caboose Cars, ... Also, but rarely, called conductor's car, cabin car, cabin, or train car. ..."

3. The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All Cases Affecting by Frank Cyrus Smith, Thomas Johnson Michie, United States Courts, Great Britain Courts, Canada Courts (1906)
"While the order of the superintendent was to take the disabled car on next to the cabin car, it did not state whether it was to be placed before or behind ..."

4. Annual Report of the President and Directors to the Stockholders (1873)
"During the year there were seven passenger cars condemned and sold, and one changed to a maintenance of way cabin car. To replace these there were six cars ..."

5. Report by Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co, Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company (1881)
"Eight-wheeled gondola car, with cranes 1 " cabin car, for signalmen, 1 Four-wheeled cabin cars, " 29 Total, 31 Tender for locomotive-engine 1 Snow-plows, ..."

6. Engineering Chemistry by Thomas Bliss Stillman (1900)
"MOTIVE POWER DEPARTMENT Specifications for cabin car Color The standard cabin car color is the pigment known as scarlet lead chro- mate. ..."

7. Engineering Chemistry: A Manual of Quantitative Chemical Analysis for the by Thomas Bliss Stillman (1916)
"Specifications for cabin car Color. The standard cabin car color is the pigment known as ... Shipments of cabin car color will not be accepted which— 1. ..."

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