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73' Baggage Car
This car is also based upon an AT&SF prototype although similar cars operated on a number of other railroads such as Rock Island; Chicago, Burlington & Quincy; Seaboard Air Line; Atlantic Coast Line and others.

 


Baggage car or (in rush periods) Railway Express car containing a mixed shipment of parcels and mail sacks consigned to a certain terminal for sorting and rerouting to various destinations via other trains.
Straight Railing ...

This is a baggage car of the post-1949 Deutsche Bundesbahn, the West German railway. It is a lighter green, but retains the silver roof. Note the caboose-like cupola on the roof.

PAPER CAR"Baggage car for the transportation of newspapers exclusively
PAPERWEIGHT"Railroad clerk, office worker. Also called pencil pusher
PARLOR"Caboose. Parlor man or parlor maid is hind brakeman or flagman on freight train ...

Express, mail, and baggage cars, usually run at the front of a passenger train consist behind the locomotives.
Heisler ...

Baggage Car - American term for luggage wagon.
Baggage Smasher - A baggage handler.

baggage car — a car for the carriage of passenger's baggage or express shipments in passenger trains. Usually with one to three large side doors and few if any windows.

The designation code used by the Australian Ghan service for a type of baggage car.
HOG
TRAINZ. A utility which can be used to import terrain data.

A combination coach and baggage car.
Comfort cab
Any control cab that is significantly larger than what has been used for the past several decades and which incorporates any of several features creating a better work environment for the engine crew, ...

B&M/NYNH&H 61' wood baggage car
B&M 61' wood combine (open vestibule)
B&M 61' wood coach (open vestibule)
NYNH&H wood combine (closed vestibule)
NYNH&H wood coach (closed vestibule)
50' wood express reefer (various roads) ...

Long-distance trains often require baggage cars for the passengers' luggage. In European practice it is common for day coaches to be formed of compartments seating 6 or 8 passengers, with access from a side corridor.

Head-end Cars
Express, mail, and baggage cars, usually run at the front of a passenger train consist behind the locomotives.

Management notices whenever the train is late because this train is the pride of the company. It might consist of some baggage cars, mail cars, a railway post office car, some coaches, sleeping cars, a diner, and an observation car.

and cub, beavers chewing a bridge support, a hunter aiming at distant deer, ladies of the night eating ice cream on the hotel porch, linemen stringing new telegraph wire, diners at an outdoor restaurant, geese escaping from a cage on a baggage cart, ...

See also: Track, Car, Locomotive, Train, Engine