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daycoach

n. (context US rail transport English) A normal railway car with seats, but no sleeping arrangements.

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Then, because it was his philosophy that a man Shouldn't cross rivers before he tested them to see how deep and cold they ran, Longarm ratcheted back the rubbed plush daycoach seat, and went to sleep with the smell of old and acrid coal dust in his nostrils.

At the I-GN depot in San Antonio, Longarm swung Off the daycoach and walked up to the baggage car to claim his gear.

At six oclock she fought her way through the crowded bus terminal, the bag clutched under one arm and the return half of her roundtrip ticket in the other hand, and was swept out onto the roaring platform on the diurnal tide of a few middleaged civilians but mostly soldiers and sailors enroute either to leave or to death and the homeless young women, their companions, who for two years now had lived from day to day in pullmans and hotels when they were lucky and in daycoaches and busses and stations and lobbies and public restrooms when not, pausing only long enough to drop their foals in charity wards or policestations and then move on again, and fought her way into the bus, smaller than any other there so that her feet touched the floor only occasionally until a shape (a man in khaki.