What is "flatcars"

Usage examples of "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.

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.

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.

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 and caboose were rolling back down the grade, but the grade would not last forever.

The flatcars were about twenty-feet long and looked like half-sized versions of standard gauge cars.

These trains were loaded on the standard gauge flatcars for transport to Halle, where they would be loaded on barges.

A long line of flatcars, Pullmans, and boxcars pushed up beside a concrete loading platform.

It consisted of six locomotives, three in tandem to the front and rear of a long line of boxcars and tankers with protected tops, with flatcars at intervals mounting sandbagged machine guns and posts for armed guards.

Two flatcars pushed in front of the lead locomotive carried rails and equipment for track repairs.