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coal car

n. freight car with fixed sides and no roof; for transporting coal

Usage examples of "coal car".

The red flickering light showed Yeager more people scrambling out of the derailed train, and others standing in the cornfield like him and Mutt He looked down toward the locomotive, and saw at once why the train had overturned: the engine and the coal car behind it had tumbled into a bomb crater.

That jacknifed the coal car and first boxcar upward off the tracks, leaving them dangling by the couplings that held them to the engjne.

They were hitched to a coal car and dragged the full car to the elevator.

They were then unhitched, the coal car manhandled onto the basket, and the basket hauled to the surface.

His coarse, black shirt bulged on the right side over the mound of three broken ribs that had never been set after an explosion of fire-damp had hurled him against a coal car.

They wouldn't know where it had happened, when she'd been put onto the coal car, who she was.

You know, gondola also means coal car, those black open-topped cars on the railroads.

He looked down toward the locomotive, and saw at once why the train had overturned: the engine and the coal car behind it had tumbled into a bomb crater.

Even if he had to ride on top of a coal car, he was going to be on the first transportation out of Chandler.

Hugo climbed up into the coal car and curled up emitting short smoky bursts of flame which caused the stranger to keep glancing at him in fear for his fuel.