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Definition of Freight car
1. Noun. A railway car that carries freight.
Generic synonyms: Car, Railcar, Railroad Car, Railway Car
Group relationships: Freight Train, Rattler
Lexicographical Neighbors of Freight Car
Literary usage of Freight car
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Railway: Its Construction, Development, Management, and Appliances by Thomas Curtis Clarke (1889)
"... THE FREIGHT-CAR SERVICE. BY THEODORE VOORHEES. Sixteen Months' Journey of a
Car—Detentions by the Way—Difficulties of the Car Accountant's ..."
2. The Engineering Index Annual for by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1914)
"Increasing freight car Efficiency. BA Worthington. Discusses the causes of delay
to equipment ... freight car* Increasing freight car Performance. CC Riley. ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"Proof establishing complete, though temporary, control and custody by a railroad
company of a freight car and its contents, is sufficient to support an ..."
4. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by George Edwin Rines, Frederick Converse Beach by George Edwin Rines, Frederick Converse Beach (1912)
"G. RAYMOND, Railway freight car Mileage in the United States. The number of miles
run daily, ... freight car mileage is classified as loaded and empty. ..."
5. The Car-builder's Dictionary: An Illustrated Vocabulary of Terms which ...by Master Car-Builders' Association, Arthur Mellen Wellington, Calvin A. Smith, Leander Garey, Matthias Nace Forney by Master Car-Builders' Association, Arthur Mellen Wellington, Calvin A. Smith, Leander Garey, Matthias Nace Forney (1895)
"The leading types of freight-car frame are shown in figs. 229- 376. etc.
See Bastard Howe. ... In freight-car framing the general use of flitch-plates or ..."
6. American Railway Transportation by Emory Richard Johnson (1908)
"Just as the small wooden sailing vessel is giving way to the large steel steamship,
so is the wooden freight-car being displaced by steel cars of greater ..."
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