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Enclosed car used for general service and for freight that must be protected from the weather.
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Box Car
An enclosed car used for general service and especially for lading which must be protected from the weather.
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A box car for carrying automobiles which has exceptionally large side doors.
Automobile Parts Car
A box car specially fitted for transportation of automobile parts.

A modern box car that is taller than standard height, and therefore has more cubic capacity.
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Main line or high-speed track (which is laid with heavier rail than that used on unimportant branches or spurs).

Railroad Box Cars Idle in Train Yard, Lit by Early Morning Sunlight
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There's an Army box car with radioactive cargo. I put a miniature lamp inside the car and the light creates a "nuclear glow" on the sides and top of the car. The car has radioactive symbols on it to warn everyone of the danger.

hi-cube — a box car with a higher than normal inside height providing more cubic capacity for the carriage of light weight, high volume freight.

A new Lionel (O gage) box car would only connect with my engine with a hard impact (when the engine coupler was closed and the box car coupler open).

Operating cars such as the Animated Box Car and the Searchlight Car do not make an electrical connection to the auxiliary rails.

The plan called for four "high cube" box cars per day to be spotted and loaded at this plant. High cube box cars are 17 foot high; 86 foot long box cars designed with a high cubic foot capacity hence the high cube moniker.

January's category; Box Cars, should have produced a table full of entries. Just three "gray heads" were willing to share "Box Cars".

Box cars were appropriate almost everywhere in the "good old days," but I don't want boxcars to go to the pulpwood or coal sidings at the papermill. Thus, you will probably want a way to differentiate waybills for various car types.

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Lots of cereal box card squares each sized around 2.5cm x 1.5cm
A rectangle of cereal box card around 2.5cm x 5cm
A base of cereal box card in any shape about 15cm x 15cm ...

About the only cars which would clear those tunnels were hoppers and a standard 40' box car. Cars which exceeded car outline "Plate C", like many covered hoppers, bulk head flats, large tank cars, 60' box cars, etc., would not clear.

Investors teamed up with short lines to take advantage of incentive payments, accounting regulations, and tax laws; short line box cars blossomed forth. Then the recession of 1978 hit, followed by truck deregulation.

Goods wagon or Goods van or Goods truck (UK): Freight car or Box car (US): A flat car with sides and a top, usually with a large sliding door in the middle of each side.

and Soviet railroading were evident from comparing the Soviet sets with U.S. sets, particularly in the design of the boxcar, which looked like an American Flyer boxcar with windows added, reflecting the Soviets' use of box cars to haul livestock, ...

"Flat" A slang term use by graffiti writers for a box car without ridges on the the sides. Perfect for applying illegal graffiti by the medium of spray paint. Flimsy Train order, or paper paper used for train orders.

The sound module can be placed easily in the tender of a steam locomotive, inside the body of larger diesels, or in a trailer car for small steam or diesel locos. Some people prefer the trailer car, typically a box car, ...

Box Car - American term for covered van or freight vehicle.
Boxcar - A rectangular, fully enclosed freight car.
Brakeman - A member of a freight or passenger train crew. His duties are to assist the conductor in any way.

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