Rolling freight transporter

Usage examples of flatcar.

The man had still found no place to put the papers when the guard, at the flatcar, noticed the Chukchi in the bobik.

Griffin was already at the sugarhouse, bringing wood in from the shed on the old iron flatcar.

The first of the new Tiger tanks stood ready, leaving behind an exhausted crew staring at nine more groaning flatcars.

For the last time, the tents had been folded and tied and shoved into wooden racks in their trucks, the bleachers collapsed and rolled into the boxcars, the animals in their cages and trailers pushed along the platform onto the flatcars and covered with canvas, the concession stands and cook shack dismantled and hauled away.

He was aware—with an abnormal clarity—of the place, the woman's name, and everything it implied, but all of it had receded into some outer ring and had become a pressure that left him alone in the center, as the ring's meaning and essence—and his only reality was the desire to have this woman, now, here, on top of the flatcar in the open sun—to have her before a word was spoken between them, as the first act of their meeting, because it would say everything and because they had earned it long ago.

They'd passed numerous westbound trains in the past two hours, all with engines dragging empty flatcars, and the conductor who appeared and disappeared regularly had told them that this was the approximate arrival time scheduled, but he hadn't really believed it, on the premise that a railroad with such uncomfortable seats probably didn't adhere to decent schedules either.

The man was making no sense to Tranquilino, who was relieved when the fellow left the flatcar at Casas Grandes.

Then, with howls and blunderbusses, they stormed the flatcars, massacred the soldiers and took possession of the train, sending it north toward Casas Grandes.

It ripped loose with a terrific wrench, almost derailing the flatcar and pulling loose the coupling pin, which had been poorly seated.

Looks like a higher level of railroad activity, looks like flatcars mostly.

Under the watchful eyes of Lieutenant Colonel Angelo Giusti, the M1A2 main battle tanks and M3 Bradley cavalry scout vehicles rolled onto the flatcars of Deutsche Rail, accompanied by the fuel and other support trucks.

He had satellite radios in his vehicles, somewhere on the flatcars aft of this coach, but he couldn't get to them, and without them he didn't know what was hap­pening up forward.

The Russian train service seem­ingly had a million flatcars designed expressly to transport tracked ve­hicles, undoubtedly intended to take their battle tanks west, into Germany for a war against NATO.

The flatcars had been designed (and built in large numbers) to transport tracked military vehicles.

He had satellite radios in his vehicles, somewhere on the flatcars aft of this coach, but he couldn't get to them, and without them he didn't know what was happening up forward.