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Definition of Railway car
1. Noun. A wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad. "Three cars had jumped the rails"
Specialized synonyms: Baggage Car, Luggage Van, Cabin Car, Caboose, Club Car, Lounge Car, Freight Car, Guard's Van, Handcar, Mail Car, Carriage, Coach, Passenger Car, Slip Carriage, Slip Coach, Tender, Van
Terms within: Suspension, Suspension System
Group relationships: Railroad Train, Train
Generic synonyms: Wheeled Vehicle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Railway Car
Literary usage of Railway car
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commercial Nomenclature by John K. Chandler, John C. Redman, Virginia H. Wood, Caroline S. Larner (1897)
"railway car Ceilings. railway car Center-Plates. railway car Chandeliers. ...
railway car Fittings. railway car Forgings. railway car Gates. ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"... stout tanks with an ordinary railway car, making the tank practically a part
of the car, so as to carry the feared substance in bulk in the car itself, ..."
3. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1908)
"At the trial of an action by a passenger upon an electric railway car for injuries
received in a collision caused by a work car backing into the car upon ..."
4. Biennial Report by Vermont Public Service Commission (1902)
"... and before ordering the electric railway car to proceed, shall set the semaphore
at "danger," and as soon as the car has crossed the railroad, ..."
5. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1917)
"If the driver of a motor truck suddenly and without giving any warning turns
immediately in front of an open street railway car that is going in the same ..."