What is "railroad cars"

Usage examples of "railroad cars".

Has all the shiny new equipment been designed to fit on railroad cars?

Her mother's family had been outraged when their lovely daughter fell in love, and then ignored them by marrying the tall, handsome half Irish, half German stranger whose only assets were tied up in a fledgling manufacturing company-building railroad cars, no less.

Although Grant was a splendid general in the field, he could not be expected to understand the confusion of overlapping commands and stern military incompetence at the capital, where Old Brains thought old thoughts while Stanton acted as a sort of frantic conductor on a runaway set of railroad cars.

The Grand Duke with his personal suite, the chief officers of the General Staff, and the Allied military attaches lived and ate in the railroad cars because it was discovered that the house intended for the Commander in Chief was too far from the stationmaster’.

The blue horsemen were not moving on Richmond, the prize was not railroad cars and supply lines.

But did you see any railroad cars with mail or United Parcel signs on 'em?

But in the past few years, governors and presidents of railroads and senators and rich men were always offering him fancy weapons, or expensive saddles, or the use of their railroad cars, or even fine horses--and always, something in him resisted.

It was like taking a long train of railroad cars and suddenly stacking them skyward, end to end.

We were all looking at the first rough mock-up of the ship, made from HO-gauge model railroad cars.

At four forty-five in the afternoon the railroad cars would refill, the train would chug its way back to Claiborne, passengers would re-board the ferry and arrive back at Baltimore at ten-thirty at night--all for one dollar and fifty cents.

At four forty-five in the afternoon the railroad cars would refill, the train would chug its way back to Claiborne, passengers would re-board the ferry and arrive back at Baltimore at ten-thirty at night—.

Not for nothing he had spent those long days and nights on railroad cars, listening to arguments among people of every shade of political persuasion.

Our men are all consummate riders, and have their servants well mounted behind them, carrying cloaks and traps - how different from the same men packed like sardines in dirty railroad cars, usually floating inch deep in liquid tobacco juice.