| 单词 | freight car |
| 例句 | That night, I slept in a freight car. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z With rising fear, Nailer realized that it was one thing to speculate idly about jumping a train, another to watch freight cars hurtle past. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z By the time we was running alongside the freight cars, everyone had thinned out. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But he climbed, clawing his way higher until he was at the top of the freight car and could see down the length of the train. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Minutes after it began, six armed, masked bandits robbed two freight cars full of liquor from a rail yard in Chicago. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z A soldier pointed to several boys, and, speaking perfect German, he ordered them to open the freight car doors. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Colonel Meecham got out of the car and stood watching the train silently reciting the names of the railroad lines tattooed on the sides of the freight cars. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The men set to work uncoupling freight cars and attaching new ones onto the train. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Olmsted in particular felt the pressure but also felt hobbled by the persistent delays in installation of exhibits and the damage done by the repeated comings and goings of drays and freight cars. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z On a railroad siding off the main tracks, men in linty overalls were loading big pasteboard boxes full of cotton thread onto a freight car. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z But one night, in a railroad yard in Memphis, as Bull and Lucy slept in an empty freight car and Edward kept watch, trouble arrived. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Even the floor of the freight car felt cold. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Most freight cars have two ladders on a side, each next to a set of wheels. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Running for things like the salvage train, with its iron freight cars that might not fly away. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z He heard the engines puffing and snorting by the roundhouse and the crash of freight cars being assembled. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Only thirty-six inches separates the wires from the tallest freight cars, the auto carriers. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Security guards stand on a plat Enrique’s Journey form over the freight cars, watch for migrants, and pull them off before they cross the bridge. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Big steel trolley freight cars were crushed as if eggshells and their piled-up cargo of boxes and merchandise minced like so much sandwich meat. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z He rolled a blanket and started slowly eastward, sometimes walking and sometimes with groups of men on the rods under slow-moving freight cars. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The police saw about fifty migrants on top of the stopped train and headed toward the freight cars to arrest them. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Hundreds of empty freight cars stood black against the lights. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He sprints alongside rolling freight cars and focuses on his footing. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He trots alongside a freight car and clambers aboard, holding his bread. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z They sprint alongside the train and reach for the ladders on the freight cars. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Security guards check the freight cars, catch every rider they can, and hand them over to the authorities. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The freight cars creak as they turn the curves. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z We went to work as usual and loaded the heavy stones onto the freight cars. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z They remembered the big placards on the freight cars with horror. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The Americans took the boys to a short stretch of railroad track, not far from the main camp, where fifty freight cars stood. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z He comes back before crossing the Rio Grande and tells Enrique about riding on trains, leaping off rolling freight cars, and dodging la migra, Mexican immigration agents. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z It was the longest one he had ever seen, with almost two hundred freight cars and a locomotive at either end and a third one in the middle. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z During the long trip, Marina went from freight car to freight car visiting with the young women, chatting and interviewing them personally. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z A midwife named Fannie delivered her into a small shack on a dead-end road overlooking a train depot, where hundreds of freight cars came and went each day. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The afternoon sun shone through the steel-mesh side of the freight car, casting a shadow across Thalia’s face. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I had slept well enough in the boxcar, but I was ready to stretch out after a couple days in a freight car. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The moon slips out for a second, shining its bluish light on what might be freight cars. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z At one point we found a freight car so full of wine we stole crates and crates of it. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I let the rhythm of it take me back to many a dusty ride in a freight car with Gideon. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Our freight car had enough fellows on it to keep the conversation moving. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We snuck onto the nearby Conrail/Long Island Rail Road tracks and broke into freight cars, robbing them of bicycles, television sets, and wine. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Mary Alice and I watched them as they stood in the open doors of the freight cars. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z A man entered the freight car and shone a flashlight in Bull’s face and then kicked him awake. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z WGN-TV video showed three or four derailed freight cars, with one car leaning over the overpass. Freight train derailment blocks Metra line 2011-12-02T13:09:00Z The second observes the varying kinds of corrosion that steam inflicts on ventilation fans, freight cars and the pipes, valves and coils of less readily identifiable machinery. Kirkland's past meets present in contraption-filled 'Steambot' 2010-11-26T05:01:00Z There was, then, every incentive to concoct charges or send people to jail for the most trivial offenses: vagrancy, gambling, drinking, partying, hopping a freight car, tarrying too long in town. Why Etan Patz still haunts us 2012-05-25T18:00:00Z Behind the all-brick buildings, a train sounded its lonesomeness, and Union Pacific freight cars chugged west. David Foster Wallace’s Peaceful Prairie 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Seeing no future in Eastern Europe, he escaped to Vienna, hiding in a freight car loaded with medical supplies. Christo, Artist Who Wrapped and Festooned on an Epic Scale, Dies at 84 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency wants the state to require a rail company to clean up after last week's explosive derailment of freight cars filled with ethanol. EPA wants state to act in railroad derailment 2011-10-13T20:07:00Z Well, this, from Fast Five: Dom drove a ’66 Corvette Grand Sport sideways out of a speeding freight car to race then train toward an imminent cliff. Furious 6: Faster, Crazycars! Thrill Thrill! 2013-05-20T16:47:36Z The first karaoke "box" venue opened in 1984 in a converted freight car in a Japanese rice field. Karaoke industry may be facing the music 2010-04-06T04:00:00Z Tim Tennant, president of the Friends group, says volunteers dedicate thousands of hours a year rebuilding vintage freight cars and painting old buildings. Who needs a railroad museum? You can ride these circa-1870 rails yourself. 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z He secured a set of fourteen slides of his own—striking scenes of destitute families, refugees in freight cars, a “sad-eyed Polish peasant” whose wife and children had died of typhus as refugees in Russia. The Second Man in the Front Row: A Forgotten Story of the First World War 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z The maker of railroad freight car equipment posted revenue of $1.02 billion in the period. Greenbrier: Fiscal Q4 Earnings Snapshot 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z The maker of railroad freight car equipment said it received orders for 15,300 new railcars worth about $1.9 billion. FedEx, Greenbrier rise; Cisco Systems, KB Home fall, Thursday, 9/21/2023 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z The company, owned by conglomerate Grupo Mexico, said some migrants even were jumping on moving freight cars “despite the grave danger that represents.” Wave of migrants that halted trains in Mexico started with migrant smuggling industry in Darien Gap 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z In recent days, there have been about a “half-dozen regrettable cases of injuries or deaths” among migrants hopping freight cars, the company said in a statement. Mexican railway operator halts trains because so many migrants are climbing aboard and getting hurt 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z The maker of railroad freight cars’ results came in far ahead of what analysts expected and raised its annual sales forecast. Overstock.com, JPMorgan Chase rise; Lindsay, McCormick fall; Thursday, 6/29/2023 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z The maker of railroad freight car equipment posted revenue of $1.04 billion in the period. Greenbrier: Fiscal Q3 Earnings Snapshot 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z At least seven freight cars fell into the Yellowstone River after a train derailed and a bridge collapsed in Montana. Crisis Abated 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z They prefer climbing onto freight cars, which have flat tops with ladders and railings that offer handholds. Wave of migrants that halted trains in Mexico started with migrant smuggling industry in Darien Gap 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z The company, owned by conglomerate Grupo Mexico, said some migrants even hopped on moving freight cars “despite the grave danger that represents.” Mexican railway operator halts trains because so many migrants are climbing aboard and getting hurt 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z The storm destroyed half of the city's mature trees, derailed freight cars and caused a chemical fire. Pushing for cuts in debt-ceiling fight, US Republican gets millions for his district 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z Migrants rode in open freight cars across an arid landscape toward the border. The Border in Photos 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z The chemical pollution horrors began on Feb. 3rd, when a train of about 150 freight cars crashed and exploded in the town of East Palestine. A truck overturned while carrying toxic soil from the East Palestine chemical spill: report 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z The maker of railroad freight car equipment posted revenue of $1.12 billion in the period. Greenbrier: Fiscal Q2 Earnings Snapshot 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z About 1,000 people were reported to be riding freight cars on the train line that connects the city of Chihuahua and the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez. Mexican railway operator halts trains because so many migrants are climbing aboard and getting hurt 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z In a statement Friday, the group said that when building trains, railroads use algorithms that account for numerous factors in the placement of locomotives and freight cars to maximize safety and effectiveness. Feds urge review of ‘train makeup’ amid rising derailments of long trains 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z “The drop in operating costs includes reductions in spending to repair, service and maintain locomotives and freight cars, perform train inspections, and pay engine crews and train crews,” it added. Justice Dept. Sues Norfolk Southern Over East Palestine Derailment 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z The maker of railroad freight car equipment gave investors an encouraging financial update. GameStop, Greenbrier rise; Petco, PacWest fall 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z The freight cars that toppled over at about 11:30 a.m. were carrying sealed containers of trash and recycling material, the Ayer Fire Department said in a social media post. Massachusetts train derails, no hazardous cargo reported 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z The companies said the combined railroad will save time and resources because it will be able to operate trains over long distances without having to switch freight cars to other railroads. Federal regulator approves first major rail merger in more than two decades 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z A dozen salvaged railway freight cars are securely welded in place, end to end and, in some places, piled high. Review: This sculptural trainwreck in the Coachella Valley is worth celebrating 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z The freight cars that derailed on the East Palestine outskirts, near the Pennsylvania state line, included 11 carrying hazardous materials. Train crew had little warning before Ohio wreck, probe finds 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z More than three dozen freight cars - including 11 carrying hazardous materials - derailed on the East Palestine outskirts, near the Pennsylvania state line, prompting an evacuation as fears grew about a potential explosion of smoldering wreckage. Buttigieg visits East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment site 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Some 50 freight cars derailed on the outskirts of East Palestine, near the Pennsylvania state line, prompting persistent environmental and health concerns. EPA takes charge of cleanup in toxic Ohio train derailment 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z At the Railway History Campus Train Shed Exhibit Hall, visitors can view locomotives, passenger cars, freight cars, and maintenance equipment on display. 5 Western WA museums to get transportation buffs going 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z The recumbent body built from freight cars is without gender, although typically in art a reclining figure is female. Review: This sculptural trainwreck in the Coachella Valley is worth celebrating 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z On Feb. 3, a train of about 150 freight cars — many carrying several loads of hazardous materials — crashed and exploded in the town of East Palestine, Ohio. Why the train wreck in Ohio is such a major public health disaster 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z The maker of railroad freight cars reported weak fiscal first-quarter earnings. Costco, WWE rise; Greenbrier, Baxter International fall 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z About 7,000 freight cars could be taken out of service each day, sending prices skyrocketing and creating a political headache for the Biden administration. US rail strike: House votes to block potential work stoppage 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z The railroad said two key performance measures, freight car velocity and locomotive productivity, were both down about 2% from last year. UP profit up 13% but railroad predicts slower volume growth 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Two Union Pacific operators were killed early Thursday when their train crashed into parked freight cars near the Salton Sea, officials said. 2 workers killed in Union Pacific train crash near Salton Sea 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z The results beat Wall Street expectations even though Union Pacific’s performance disappointed with two key performance measures — the speed of its freight cars and locomotive productivity — down 12%. Union Pacific profit up as railroad delivery delays reduced 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z The maker of railroad freight car equipment reported disappointing fiscal third-quarter earnings. Twitter, Las Vegas Sands fall; Mullen, La Jolla rise 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z On a recent morning, chains held 11 of the old R-32s atop flat railway freight cars. Bon voyage: Old subway cars float off across New York Harbor 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z Kyslytsya said the question has become more relevant since four Russian missiles hit a plant in the capital Kyiv on Sunday where freight cars that carry grain to Ukrainian ports were being repaired. EU blames Russia for food crisis, Russian UN envoy walks out 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z View shows railroad freight cars, including oil tanks, in Omsk, Russia May 1, 2020. Russian oil output up 1.7% month on month in May so far, Interfax reports 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z Migrants from Central America sit on freight cars and railroads as they wait for the departure of a freight train to continue their journey towards Mexico City, in Tierra Blanca, Veracruz, Mexico December 2, 2021. Mexican officials find more than 3,000 migrants in two days 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z Local news outlets report a Norfolk Southern Railway locomotive and seven freight cars overturned in Hiram, part of a 88-car train. Train derails in suburban Atlanta, blocking streets 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z The maker of railroad freight car equipment handily beat Wall Street’s fiscal third-quarter earnings forecasts. Stamps.com, Greenbrier rise; Dominion falls 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z Substitute rackets and balls for train tracks and freight cars, and there was little difference from Canadian Pacific Railway. A Few Tennis Pros Make a Fortune. Most Barely Scrape By. 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z Three other freight cars were obtained from private owners by trading rail line. Southwest Colorado museum restores narrow-gauge freight cars 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z The remaining Jews were then packed into freight cars and vans. Romania Holocaust survivor Tucarman dies from COVID-19 at 98 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z The proposed second dock would be devoted to the transfer of LNG or other refinery byproducts from freight cars or trucks to ships. Proposal to build LNG terminal on Delaware River could pose early test for the Biden administration 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z The tracks still serve freight cars, but the depot has been out of service as a commuter hub for many years. Volunteers seek to honor service members, preserve history 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z Along the restored brick walls of the structure’s original “freight room” are enlarged photos of the WCF&N; freight cars and trolleys along the historic streets of Black Hawk County. Group keeps memories of Waterloo-area railroad era alive 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z The car later became part of the Durango and Silverton railroad’s freight car roster and was obtained by the Galloping Goose Historical Museum in 2019. Southwest Colorado museum restores narrow-gauge freight cars 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z The railroad freight car maker reported surprisingly good fiscal third-quarter profits and revenue. Gilead Sciences, Matson rise; WD-40, Eli Lilly fall 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z Fifty members of the Prescott Home Guard met the train at Jerome Junction, arrested nine of its occupants and sent the others, loaded on freight cars, on to Needles, Califonia. Arizona history July 5-11 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z He worked at the mines for 39 years on the surface, loading coal into freight cars. As covid-19 hits, coal companies aim to cut the tax they pay to support black-lung miners 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z No matter how complicated the process was to get the bridge - the false starts, the protests, the lawsuits, the belief that it might never happen - the clang of freight cars once again rings from below. Southernside pedestrian bridge opens to connect a community 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z After completed and the tracks are laid, the 27,000-pound freight cars will be moved to the museum for display. Southwest Colorado museum restores narrow-gauge freight cars 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z Two freight cars plunged into the Potomac River early Saturday morning following a derailment on a bridge near Harpers Ferry in West Virginia, officials said. Freight train cars derail into the Potomac River near Harpers Ferry in West Virginia 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z Currently, passenger trains are often delayed because of freight cars using the only available tracks between Virginia and the district. Virginia to boost passenger rail service to DC 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z The plane struck a freight car and broke in two. The Air and Space museum gets a facelift, and its famous planes get a thorough exam 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z We are not sure if @yadvashem would like the ‘Christmas ornament’ with a freight car used for deporting Jews for extermination either.” Amazon yanks Auschwitz-themed Christmas ornaments after backlash 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z During a recent tour of the freight cars, volunteers removed sliding doors on the stock cars, which will be replaced replicas built by volunteers. Southwest Colorado museum restores narrow-gauge freight cars 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z We are not sure if @yadvashem would like the "Christmas ornament" with a freight car used for deporting Jews for extermination either. Amazon pulls Auschwitz-themed Christmas ornaments 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z Those include a “disturbing” mousepad and a ceramic Christmas ornament with a freight car used for deporting Jews for extermination. Amazon pulls 'disturbing' Christmas ornaments bearing images of Auschwitz 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z Besides, the company says it has no plans to manufacture freight cars in the U.S. Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in Illinois 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z Some unexpected cases included workers exposed to “freight car seals; coffin ‘trim’; decalcomania papers for pottery decoration; polishing cut glass; brass founding; wrapping cigars in so-called tinfoil, which is really lead.” The Woman Who Founded Industrial Medicine 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z About 40 freight cars left the tracks around 4:30 a.m. US, Canadian safety officials looking into train derailment 2019-06-29T04:00:00Z Two days later, Associated Press journalists saw the train roll to a stop in a rural area, and then soldiers climbed ladders to the top of freight cars shouting, “This is the army, you’re surrounded!” Migrant woman killed in fall from train in Mexico 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z Soldiers climbed ladders up to the top of freight cars shouting, “This is the army, you’re surrounded!” Mexico stages raid on train, detains dozens of migrants 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z While there are no U.S. passenger-car builders, CRRC’s success has fueled a backlash by American freight companies, which fear the company will encroach on the country’s far bigger freight car market. China to bid on D.C. Metro rail deal as national security hawks circle 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z A team of assassins wipes out the crew of a railroad train in Texas and swipes three crates from a freight car. Review: Jon Land’s fans are in for another wild ride 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z The train was hauling more than 80 freight cars. Woman dies after vehicle struck by train in central Indiana 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z News outlets report that officials with the state’s environment department are en route to assess the situation, but it appears that all the CSX freight cars were empty at the time of the accident. Freight train cars derail off Baltimore span; no injuries 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Near Logan in northeast New Mexico, high winds knocked 25 freight cars off a railroad bridge into a mostly dry riverbed. Historic ‘bomb cyclone’ storm pounds Rockies, Midwest 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z High winds knocked 25 railroad freight cars off a bridge into a mostly dry riverbed near Logan in northeast New Mexico. Colorado’s ‘bomb cyclone’ storm barrels toward Midwest 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z A massive, rectangular steel box, its shape echoes the freight cars rumbling by on train tracks in the distance. Review: For Desert X 2019, I drove 198 miles to see 19 artists' work. Here's the best 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z The board also urged the Association of American Railroads and freight car supplier American Railcar Industries to monitor tank car welding processes. Safety board makes recommendations after W.Va. tank car leak 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z The car was in the middle of a freight train with 71 freight cars and five locomotives. Alaska Railroad tank car derails; no spill detected 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z City Administrator Mark Kaiser said there were no injuries or damage to any structures, but an empty freight car punched through a resident’s backyard fence by about 4 feet. Freight train derails into backyard, narrowly missing house 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Seven freight cars overturned, but the others and the locomotive remained upright. Train derailment sends freight cars into back yards 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z Collins chased the train until it stopped again and she pulled her daughter from underneath the freight car. Mother encouraged 8-year-old girl to crawl under train that dragged and killed her, police say 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z No one was injured in the derailment, but 23 freight cars left the tracks. Buckled track blamed in fiery Indiana freight derailment 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Near Canal and Reservoir roads, several B & O freight cars were washed into the Potomac when the track bed gave way. While war raged in the Pacific, Washington fought the great flood of 1942 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z All four engines are back on the rails, but removal of the freight cars continues Monday. Derailed train was carrying low-level radioactive soils 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Glance up from your beer or your gin-and-tonic and more often than not you’ll see a moving wall of freight cars rattling by. Fiction by T. Coraghessan Boyle: “I Walk Between the Raindrops” 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Customs building, Wells Fargo Depot and several freight cars. Today in Arizona History 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z In the past they often triggered the brakes on freight cars or uncoupled them. Mexico train robberies rise as thieves block tracks 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z According to authorities, several hopper type cars and other freight cars were off the track. Freight train derails near South Carolina town 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z The crazed mob looted gun shops and weaponized freight cars loaded with coal, setting them on fire and rolling them downhill toward the roundhouse where the soldiers had sheltered. Analysis | Labor Day’s radical roots: How a worker revolt on the B&O Railroad almost became a revolution 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z On this date in 1898, a violent storm swept through Gila Bend, demolishing the school, tearing the drug store off its foundation, wrecking the Southern Pacific roundhouse and overturning freight cars. Today in Arizona History 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Customs building, Wells Fargo depot and several freight cars. Today in Arizona History 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z DeGraff said the derailment involved box, hopper, tanker and other freight cars. 38 cars of Union Pacific freight train derail in East Texas 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Some 14,000 trucks and 1,100 rail freight cars cross the river every day between the city and Nuevo Laredo in Mexico, according to Texas state figures. In Texas, Business Owners Hope Donald Trump’s Nafta Rhetoric Is Just Talk 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z He hopped on a freight car in Bathgate, N.D., in 1932 to travel to Chicago to watch the Cubs lose the World Series to Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees. ‘Who Is Left to Counterbalance the Extreme Partisanship?’ 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z The freight car now is mostly paint-bare wood, with blotches of faded red paint freckled on the boards and the exterior metal frame. 15-year-old Connecticut boy buys 44,000-pound boxcar 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Authorities say several freight cars went off the tracks at around 10 a.m. Amtrak delays after Bronx freight derailment; no injuries 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z The collision caused freight cars and containers to derail. Crews fighting blaze at train collision site with 3 missing 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z The wreckage was visible from high-rise apartments near the crash site: A zigzag pattern of mangled tankers and overturned freight cars sat beside the tracks below the Rhode Island Avenue Metro station. CSX train derails in Northeast Washington, leaking hazardous chemicals and disrupting travel 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z The new 900-foot-long steel arch bridge will allow heavier freight cars to travel faster when it opens in about three years. Construction starting on new railroad span in NY state park 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Glenn Boies, a plumber from Woodstock who mentors Orion on maple syrup making, came down to help disassemble the undercarriage prior to the lifting of the freight car from its wheel sections, known as trucks. 15-year-old Connecticut boy buys 44,000-pound boxcar 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z The railroad said the derailment occurred Friday morning two miles east of Gallup and involved a westbound train with a mix of 93 freight cars. Freight cars on BNSF train derail in northwestern New Mexico 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z But not everyone is eager to see new rail lines hauling miles of coal-laden freight cars through the center of town. U.S. exports its greenhouse-gas emissions — as coal. Profitable coal. 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z A set of wheels, still intact but missing its freight car, sat upright beside the track bed. CSX train derails in Northeast Washington, leaking hazardous chemicals and disrupting travel 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z A train of twelve closed freight cars left on the evening of February 22nd, packed with six hundred and fifty people. Primo Levi’s Indestructible Humanity 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z “The individual died after he was electrocuted trying to climb on to the freight car,” the official said. Croatia moves refugees to Hungarian border - as it happened 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z The agency says crews are continuing to work to re-rail the freight cars that derailed Tuesday afternoon and repair damaged track. LIRR Derailment Means Big Delays 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z MTA officials say the derailed freight cars are blocking one of the two tracks that are shared by trains on the Ronkonkoma and Port Jefferson branches. Morning delays expected on LIRR following freight derailment 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z The merger created controversy in China because the combined company supplied 80 percent of all freight cars and passenger cars in the country. With U.S. Factory and Transit Deal, Inroad for Chinese Rail Firm 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Gusts also flipped several freight cars at a train station in Yilan County in the northeast, the Taiwan-based news outlet Apple Daily reported. Typhoon Soudelor Kills 6 in Taiwan and Leaves Millions Without Power 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z “The individual died after he was electrocuted trying to climb on to the freight car,” the official said. Croatia moves refugees to Hungarian border - as it happened 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z The moving train’s 79 freight cars included 27 cars loaded with sand and 52 empties, while the parked train had two cars carrying molasses and 10 empties, Carswell said. Railroad: Freight train hits parked train in New Mexico 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Railroad crews are continuing to work around the clock to re-rail the freight cars and repair damaged track. Morning delays expected on LIRR following freight derailment 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z The freight car carrying lumber derailed around midnight Sunday just west of the Wyandanch station. Derailment repair to affect LIRR Ronkonkoma line 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z On Sunday, about 30 freight cars on a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train derailed near Hudson, spilling tons of coal and diverting Amtrak trains. No injuries in 2nd train Weld County derailment in 2 days 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z At least 27 freight cars derailed and lost their cargo. Trains derailments in Texas, Colorado over weekend 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z The increased amount will be used to enhance infrastructure and add freight cars. CSX Earnings Preview: Strong Domestic Volumes Likely To Offset Weak International Shipments 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z U.S. agents wanted to bribe some locals, sneak aboard the train and move the freight car carrying the Lunik onto a railway siding and into a warehouse, where they could study it overnight. The Plan to Nuke the Moon and Other Cold War Plots Revealed in Secret Documents The exhibit focuses on Indiana’s history in transportation, land use, talent and community and is set up in three of The Next Indiana’s freight cars. Travel into Indiana’s past on bicentennial train 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z Bridge and tunnel repairs, projects to upgrade and straighten tracks, sidings and double-tracking to help passenger trains pass freight cars, and other incremental improvements can all make rail travel more attractive. The Truth About Obama's High-Speed Rail Program 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z Specialty funds, such as index funds that hold investments in soybeans, oil or freight car containers, are valuable only if they truly diversify your portfolio. Is There Such a Thing as Too Much Indexing? 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Norfolk Southern spokesman Dave Pidgeon says the train was heading from Lancaster to Harrisburg and that all 45 of its freight cars were empty. Train collides with car, killing woman, injuring 2 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z You may have seen a freight train pass by with empty beds, or spaces between the freight cars. Let’s make an effort to move more freight by rail and less by road. Trains are more efficient. 2014-03-03T21:45:18Z Despite four railway stations in the region there are too few freight cars to rush supplies to the big onion markets in the north and east of the country. Onionomics: Peeling away India's food economy 2014-02-12T21:08:08Z Delays occurred as well as motorists slowed to look at a tanker car and a freight car visibly leaning sideways on the railway bridge. Train hauling crude oil derails on Philadelphia bridge 2014-01-20T22:54:13Z A photograph from the scene obtained by Reuters showed freight cars on their sides next to the tracks. Mexico migrant cargo train 'La Bestia' derails, at least five dead 2013-08-25T18:33:40Z The deluge crushed freight cars, tore Engine 31 firehouse from its foundation and, when it reached an elevated railway on Atlantic Avenue, nearly lifted a train right off the tracks. The Science of the Great Molasses Flood 2013-08-10T16:15:00.790Z A wave 25 feet high and 160 feet wide at its peak demolished buildings, crushed freight cars and tore the Engine 31 firehouse from its foundation. How to Swim in Molasses: Microbes Have Evolved Many Wacky Ways of Moving Through Fluids (preview) 2013-08-06T11:45:02.017Z Separately, Canada's Transportation Safety Board said two wheels of a freight car operated by MMA came off the rails on Thursday near Farnham, east of Montreal. Canada's big railways review safety rules after train disaster 2013-07-18T19:04:01Z Baltimore's WBAL-AM radio reported that several freight cars were on fire. CSX train derails outside Baltimore, buildings collapse 2013-05-28T20:15:05Z Bombardier took a restructuring charge of $119 million in the quarter related to job cuts in its rail unit and the closure of a freight car plant in Aachen, Germany. Bombardier profit falls on charge; delays Learjet 85 service entry 2013-02-21T12:14:23Z Even more inexplicably it’s not uncommon to see two engines being used to transport one freight car. The Baffling Economics Of The Island Of Sodor 2013-01-27T16:08:26Z FDR had to rely on indicators like the price of pig iron or the volume of freight car traffic, rather than gross domestic product. A brief history of macro: How we got here 2013-01-21T23:19:13Z Mr. Smith removed the decaying wood bulkheads and other debris from the former float yard — where railroads brought in freight cars by boat — but kept three existing piers. Steven Smith, Developer, Hopes to Restore a Fleeting Paradise in the Bronx 2013-01-05T15:46:53Z There had been no violence, however, until strange faces began to appear in the town, and some old abandoned freight cars outside the mills were burned. A Captain of Industry Being the Story of a Civilized Man 2012-04-25T02:01:06.607Z I think he beat his way to the colony in a freight car, tramp fashion. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z The result is that the dispatch companies now control the freight business, and the railroads have, as a rule, quit providing themselves with freight cars. Monopolies and the People 2012-03-12T03:00:23.687Z Ralph at once knew the gaunt, desperate-looking fellow, who had jumped from the delayed freight car and knocked him down the previous evening. Ralph in the Switch Tower 2012-03-02T03:00:11.847Z "I have been in a freight car for one thing, and in the river for another," said Ralph. Ralph of the Roundhouse 2012-03-02T03:00:11.217Z No one knew when a freight car would reach New York from Watertown. The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg RailRoad 2012-03-02T03:00:07.920Z Here they took a siding and left the dummy, to walk to the spot where the two freight cars had gone over the embankment. Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car 2012-02-29T03:00:25.457Z The average freight car carries about fifteen tons—David's gold and silver would load about four thousand five hundred and thirty-three cars, making a train about thirty-two miles in length. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z On a near siding stood half a dozen freight cars. Ralph in the Switch Tower 2012-03-02T03:00:11.847Z He was in a freight car, its doors and windows were closed, and it was rolling along at a good fast rate of speed. Ralph of the Roundhouse 2012-03-02T03:00:11.217Z Lady Sweets and Dominies are respectfully being urged into the cellar, and for those who will pay to learn the falseness of this world’s shows the freight cars are receiving Ben Davises. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z I believe that he was a prisoner, perhaps shut into some freight car, but managing to send adrift that word to me.” Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car 2012-02-29T03:00:25.457Z And at noon, away, away, in the caboose of a freight car, to meet the passenger train at Owatonna, and so reach Minneapolis by early evening. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z The wheels of the detached freight car, striking a sharp slant, ran away from the persons who had started it up. Ralph in the Switch Tower 2012-03-02T03:00:11.847Z One of the ships carried several papier-mâché freight cars of the small European type covered with legends which indicated that they were loaded with ammunition and bound for Mesopotamia. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z Next time I carry milk cans I’ll get a freight car.” Dorothy Dale in the City 2012-01-13T03:00:12.213Z Just after daybreak that morning Ralph had reached Stanley Junction on top of a freight car. Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car 2012-02-29T03:00:25.457Z The statement made in the recent Narrow Gauge Convention, that standard gauge freight cars weigh ten tons and carry ten tons, is indignantly disputed by users of the latter. Scientific American, Vol. XXXIX.?No. 24. [New Series.], December 14, 1878 A Weekly Journal Of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, And Manufactures 2012-01-05T03:00:31.783Z Outlined against the black sky there showed the framework of several freight cars. Ralph in the Switch Tower 2012-03-02T03:00:11.847Z The whole management of convoys, indeed, bore many resemblances to the method of handling freight cars on the American system of transcontinental lines. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z He led us down another flight to a tall chamber about the size of a freight car stood on end. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z Just as he reached the end of a freight car he hastened his steps. Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car 2012-02-29T03:00:25.457Z There is the station, the switch tower, the engines and the freight cars. Text Books of Art Education, Book IV (of 7) 2011-11-29T03:00:14.593Z She carries on four tracks 30 freight cars, with 1350 tons of freight. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z The wet rails, the freight cars, and the brilliant poster reminded him of the cities he had turned his back upon some time ago. The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound 2011-11-24T03:00:42.877Z The shed was dark, but the sliding doors on the other side were open and he crawled under a freight car and crossed the track. Northwest! 2011-11-22T03:00:09.880Z The gigantic locomotive, drawing palatial passenger coaches, and sometimes as much as a hundred heavily loaded freight cars, run by thousands and thousands daily through luxurious prairies. England, Canada and the Great War 2011-10-20T02:00:21.577Z At Kingston, where we arrived on the 30th, a long train of freight cars for the slightly wounded, and hospitals cars for the severely wounded was waiting, ready to start for Chattanooga. A Narrative of Service with the Third Wisconsin Infantry 2011-10-15T02:00:29.757Z The other existing main rail route north from London, the East Coast line to Edinburgh, hasn’t been upgraded like its West Coast counterpart to carry taller freight cars from continental Europe. Cameron’s Fast Rail Runs Into Tory Roadblock: Freight Markets 2011-09-07T08:11:24Z Iron is also found in large quantities near the 164 coal mines, and trains of freight cars carry both these minerals to cities not far away where they are used together in making steel. Little Folks of North America Stories about children living in the different parts of North America 2011-09-01T02:00:19.377Z The freight cars were short vans or wagon-bodies covered with canvas like a Conestoga wagon. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z Jolting over one hundred miles in a freight car doesn’t improve the tone any.” The Motion Picture Chums at Seaside Park The Rival Photo Theatres of the Boardwalk 2011-08-05T02:00:44.900Z The average load carried in an ordinary freight car on the Burlington road is from 36,000 to 40,000 pounds. The Mail Pay on the Burlington Railroad 2011-06-21T02:00:28.507Z At that moment the burly fellow near the freight cars made a dive for the trucks of a baggage car, with the evident intention of stealing a ride. Dave Porter on Cave Island A Schoolboy's Mysterious Mission 2011-06-15T02:00:23.660Z As he explained it, the rail was part of a complicated conveyor system used to move a shipment, piece by piece, from freight cars on the High Line to trucks at ground level. City Room: When the Meatpacking District Lived Up to Its Name 2011-06-14T11:30:53Z One shows a stationary engine at the top of a hill with a number of little freight cars at a very singular angle going down a steep grade. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z Hungry-faced, unkempt looking, as if he had not slept for a week, and then in a hay mow or a freight car. Airship Andy or The Luck of a Brave Boy 2011-06-13T02:00:31.130Z Ordinary freight cars were used for transportation, into which were crowded from 35 to 40 men, allowing five men in each car as a guard. History of the Dewitt guard, company A, 50th regiment National guard, state of New York 2011-05-25T02:00:23.703Z The townspeople, moreover, liked to buy fish from Old Captain's queer shop in the end of his freight car. The Cinder Pond 2011-05-17T02:00:20.320Z Unloading the freight cars on the High Line “was a total ballet,” he said. City Room: When the Meatpacking District Lived Up to Its Name 2011-06-14T11:30:53Z Pat wanted a drink of water and the toy alligator and the electric engine and six freight cars. The Boy Grew Older 2011-05-10T02:01:01.027Z The present rolling-stock of the road will barely suffice to keep us day by day here, but I have bought fifty more freight cars, which are arriving. Chattanooga and Chickamauga Reprint of Gen. H. V. Boynton's letters to the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, August, 1888. 2011-05-10T02:00:58.760Z Freight cars stood at one side, freight cars empty now of their loads of good cheer. Ethel Morton and the Christmas Ship 2011-05-03T02:00:15.220Z There had been a late wild rose on the bush near Old Captain's freight car—a deep rose streaked with crimson. The Cinder Pond 2011-05-17T02:00:20.320Z Mr. Heathcoat: "The freight car builders suffered more than others, but the commission can find out best by having some one from each department come before it." The Pullman Boycott A Complete History of the R.R. Strike 2011-05-02T02:00:15.510Z It will take a good many freight cars to carry my oranges to the eastern markets.” Aunt Jane?s Nieces on the Ranch 2011-04-14T02:00:48.280Z When it was unavoidable I walked; but railroad hands were more sympathetic in those days, and I came most of the way from Omaha inside and sometimes underneath the freight cars. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z The buildings grew mightier but not less gloomy; the freight cars grew fewer, and the coaches more numerous. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z The walk was long, but at last Jeanne reached the blossoming bank, against which Old Captain's freight car rested. The Cinder Pond 2011-05-17T02:00:20.320Z The Rock Island road is protected on each side of the right-of-way by low fences, and empty freight cars were standing for many blocks on the side track next the fence. The Pullman Boycott A Complete History of the R.R. Strike 2011-05-02T02:00:15.510Z Parallel to the car line ran a railway track, quite unguarded from the street proper, along which switch engines with freight cars smoked and clanged. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z A freight car happened to be at the time on the sidetrack near, and the thought struck them that they could load all their "traps" into this and push it to their destination. The Strange Story of Harper's Ferry With Legends of the Surrounding Country 2011-03-04T03:00:59.137Z It was during one of these hungry intervals that the nine-year-old urchin made his descent on the bananas in the freight car, and received his first jail sentence. The Super Race: An American Problem 2011-03-01T03:00:46.193Z Next, she inspected the shack on the dock; after that, the Captain's old freight car. The Cinder Pond 2011-05-17T02:00:20.320Z On the tracks at Thirty-seventh street four trains were standing, and just north of them an empty freight car was lying across the tracks. The Pullman Boycott A Complete History of the R.R. Strike 2011-05-02T02:00:15.510Z There is no analogy between dollars and freight cars. Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted 2011-02-01T03:00:14.553Z The first house in Plum Creek was built by Robert Pierce, whose family got permission to live in a freight car on the side-track while the house was being built. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z But to have done the latter would have been to crash into a solid wall of moving freight cars as they bumped across the grade crossing. The Girl Aviators and the Phantom Airship He read it again in Old Captain's freight car, and when Barney Turcott came in, he too had to hear it. The Cinder Pond 2011-05-17T02:00:20.320Z A fair example of the general reduction is given in a comparison in the price of labor involved in the construction of a freight car in 1888 and 1893. The Pullman Boycott A Complete History of the R.R. Strike 2011-05-02T02:00:15.510Z Little by little Olive told the whole history of her strange life to the Irishman, who sat on the box in the freight car and never ceased his whittling for a moment. The Ranch Girls at Rainbow Lodge The Ranch Girls Series While in the freight car the family was attacked by measles. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z The passenger coaches were just long boxes, with low, almost flat roofs, like those of freight cars. Campmates A Story of the Plains Old Captain would surely be home, tidying his freight car and heating water for his weekly shave. The Cinder Pond 2011-05-17T02:00:20.320Z It was then ready to go into the freight car on the track a few feet away, where experienced men were loading the car with the yellow fruit. Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway Once or twice a dirty-faced trainman stuck his head in the open door of the freight car, but he saw nothing of the frightened girl huddled between the boxes. The Ranch Girls at Rainbow Lodge The Ranch Girls Series The biggest elephant in the herd seemed the size of a freight car as he calmly reached into the tree tops and pulled down the tender foliage. Tahara Among African Tribes Ate a breakfast of cold beef and bread, filled our canteens with water, when we scrambled on top the freight cars in order to procure transportation. An Artilleryman's Diary "My heart's big enough," he said, "but my freight car ain't." The Cinder Pond 2011-05-17T02:00:20.320Z About noon a train of freight cars were ready and we clambered aboard and started for Philadelphia. Personal Recollections of the Civil War By One Who Took Part in It as a Private Soldier in the 21st Volunteer Regiment of Infantry from Massachusetts A noisy little engine that had been drilling freight cars about the yard stopped on the siding just beneath the window, and commenced to roar angrily with a burst of feathery vapor. Harper's Round Table, October 22, 1895 Or one might watch the German prisoners, marked by a huge “P. G.” stamped on the back of their uniforms, pushing about the puny French freight cars on the docks. Battery E in France 149th Field Artillery, Rainbow (42nd) Division The body lay in an old freight car covered with coarse sacks. An Artilleryman's Diary As soon as he could, your uncle began to take out the animals and load them into freight cars to ship to the coast. Harper's Round Table, August 27, 1895 A train of freight cars was upon the ferry, but a single passenger coach was among them, and the switching engine brought this off first. The Indian Drum Then I shore said a few, after which I busted my back a-hoisting his freight cars aboard, and we started out again, Frank acting like a d––n fool. The Orphan Miss Duckman dropped her bundles and plunged through the mud to where Rudnik lay, while the train, which was composed of empty freight cars, slid to a grinding stop a short distance up the track. The Competitive Nephew Guns were put in flat cars, horses in freight cars, and at 5 P. M. we started under Colonel Alexander. An Artilleryman's Diary There was some grumbling on account of having to ride in a freight car on the part of men who afterwards, many times, would have very gladly availed themselves of that jolting method of transportation. The Story of the Raising and Organization of a Regiment of Volunteers in 1862 Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Commandery of the District of Columbia, War Papers 46 The thirty-two freight cars, in their four long lines, stood wedged and chained and blocked in place; they tipped and tilted, rolled and swayed like the stanchions and sides of the ship, fixed and secure. The Indian Drum Three passenger cars, and ten freight cars, as was then the vicious custom of that road, passed me. Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Ten Christmas stories From Philadelphia to the National Capital we were transported in freight cars, a new experience to all of us, but one to which we became accustomed before we saw Rhode Island again. A Raw Recruit's War Experiences I saw it put in the freight car myself, and well braced. The Motor Girls on the Coast or, The Waif From the Sea After shivering in the cold for two hours, we were allowed to get aboard the freight cars, and were taken to Acquia Creek. History of the Sixteenth Connecticut Volunteers Roberts ran down the street to the interurban depot, where he hid behind a freight car until just before the car left for Seattle. The Everett massacre A history of the class struggle in the lumber industry After they had scrambled into the old freight cars and stowed them selves away, Si looked over his squad and counted it. Si Klegg, Book 4 (of 6) Experiences Of Si And Shorty On The Great Tullahoma Campaign He was sorry he had to tell so many whoppers, but he wa'n't ever goin' home any more, and he was much obliged for my tip about the freight car. Side-stepping with Shorty We were then put on some flat or freight cars and shipped to City Point. The Southern Soldier Boy A Thousand Shots for the Confederacy This required 1,000 loaded freight cars a day passing over the docks, fifteen solid trainloads of freight each day. The Industrial Canal and Inner Harbor of New Orleans History, Description and Economic Aspects of Giant Facility Created to Encourage Industrial Expansion and Develop Commerce Somewhat refreshed we took passage in open freight cars for Richmond and Libby Prison. Ball's Bluff An Episode and its Consequences to some of us Forty freight cars and a fine engine were captured in this train, and destroyed. History of Morgan's Cavalry "Was it nice, riding in the freight car?" Side-stepping with Shorty Here we found many new freight cars marked U. S. M. R. R. We took up quarters in them to wait until 8 a. m. next day. The Southern Soldier Boy A Thousand Shots for the Confederacy One morning, when a snow-crusted engine dragged its long string of freight cars and its one passenger coach to the station, Scully performed the marvel of catching three men. The Monster and Other Stories In addition to its own cars it builds ordinary passenger and freight cars on contract. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" Some of the freight cars were also run into the tunnel and set on fire when the wood work was kindled. History of Morgan's Cavalry Why were only freight cars, largely hospital wrecks, set on fire? Violence and the Labor Movement He could see the shipments, crated, sitting in freight cars to the north. Bear Trap "It was only a little try-out for a freight car like me." Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist Back and forth across the mouth of the cavern the light played, and the watchers caught a glimpse of a huge parrot beak which could have engulfed a freight car. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 The men about the dump huddled for a long minute under freight cars, then crawled out, and the dump boss called the roll; Hogan was missing. In the Heart of a Fool Equipment was overhauled, larger freight cars were ordered, and new terminals acquired. The Railway Builders A Chronicle of Overland Highways The detective, the first witness for the prosecution, testified that he had followed the prisoner into the yards from among the freight cars, watched him approach the engine Blackwings and talk with the engineer. Snow on the Headlight A Story of the Great Burlington Strike His view was blocked by some freight cars that were standing on the C. & S. C tracks at some distance to the east. Calumet 'K' Shortly afterwards orders for freight cars came in faster than we were able to supply them, and we called at once on the cars of the Great South Midland and Atlantic. The Romance of a Plain Man To do this he purchased a 22 small hand printing press and fitted out, as best he could, a printing office in an old freight car. Modern Americans A Biographical School Reader for the Upper Grades Telegraph the general freight agent at Chicago for freight cars, as fast as he can let me have them. A Captain in the Ranks A Romance of Affairs The night winds moaned among the empty freight cars. Snow on the Headlight A Story of the Great Burlington Strike When St. Cloud, Minn., was visited with a cyclone years ago, the wind picked up loaded freight cars and carried them away off the track. The Person and Work of The Holy Spirit It contained a battery of German artillery and was a very long one, consisting of flat cars, freight cars, and one or more passenger coaches for the officers. The Note-Book of an Attaché Seven Months in the War Zone Lead the horse up to a stone wall or a freight car and spring lightly into the saddle with a glad cry. Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) He had put a large sum of money into the Through Line of freight cars, but he had done so with an eye single to his own advantage, with no thought of anything but dividends. A Captain in the Ranks A Romance of Affairs The people managed to invade the quay in great numbers, and those who were daring clambered to the top of the freight cars standing on the wharf, the better to give him a cheer. Westward with the Prince of Wales Detroit is probably the largest manufacturer in the country of freight cars, stoves, pharmaceutical preparations, varnish, soda ash and similar alkaline products. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" These racks are arranged to hold two layers of three stretchers each, so that each end of the freight car contains six lying cases. The Note-Book of an Attaché Seven Months in the War Zone A freight car is the best thing from which to mount a horse, but it is too unwieldy and frequently delays the chase. Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) The coaches were little better than the present freight car caboose, the schedule was unreliable, the trains slow, and a change of cars had to be made at the Alexandria junction. A Virginia Village I stole rides on freight cars when I could, and when I couldn’t do that, I tramped, till I got to St. Louis, and got a place there in a third-class hotel as bell boy. The Award of Justice Or, Told in the Rockies A Pen Picture of the West Freak situations in which to locate their nests are often chosen by these birds, such as the brake beam of a freight car, in the crevices of old wells, hen houses, etc. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. I saw tens of thousands of freight cars gathered in great central yards at a few main strategic points connected by long tunnels with all the minor centers. The Harbor The engine was a huge one, built for mountain hauling, and the freight cars that lurched out of the forest behind it were huger still. The Greater Power He had drifted, taking jobs here and there, sleeping in flop-houses, jungles, park benches, and freight cars. They Twinkled Like Jewels His entire life was blighted because he had stuck to his job, coupling freight cars, when the engineer lost his head. Traffic in Souls A Novel of Crime and Its Cure The station at Saint-Quentin was shelled from the air and upward of 150 freight cars and extensive freight sheds destroyed. The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War In and out among grimy freight cars we sped. The Harbor Under favorable circumstances a loaded freight car can now be propelled a mile with one pound of coal. The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses Geoffrey hear the vibratory rattle of freight cars racing down the valley, and he went on again at a reckless run, leaping across black gulfs of shadow. Thurston of Orchard Valley And the grade was long––and it was outrageously steep––and they had overloaded the little engine with freight cars––and she wasn’t yet half-way up. Billy Topsail & Company A Story for Boys "They'll be takin' him out of a freight car about now," said Curry. Old Man Curry Race Track Stories There are long lines of freight cars here and snorting locomotives. The Harbor Baled cloth being put aboard waiting freight cars This change in the national complexion had two very important results. The Fabric of Civilization A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States There was a motley gathering of every class of freight cars on the line. Ralph on the Overland Express The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer Coffee to be reshipped, either by lighter or rail, is heaped in piles by itself until loaded on to the lighters or freight cars. All About Coffee Springing across the coal heaped up in the tender, he climbed to the top of the first freight car and started on a swift run the length of the train. Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail Outside were freight cars in long lines, some motionless, some suddenly lurching forward or back, with a grinding and screeching of wheels and a puffing and coughing from engines ahead. The Harbor The French freight cars are about half the size of our American cars. The Fight for the Argonne Personal Experiences of a 'Y' Man He and his companions had broken open a freight car and had brought each a good load. Ralph on the Overland Express The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer Carloads of coffins were being unloaded from freight cars below town and carried along the roads. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin In the tower, all safe and comfortable now, but he had a hard time of it lying all night in a freight car, gagged and tied. Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail As I headed across the railroad tracks that led to the docks, suddenly Sam and his gang appeared from around a freight car. The Harbor They were picking their way toward it across a network of tracks, when, just as they rounded the corner of a freight car, they came face to face with Hartley. Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour "That ain't the main entrance you came through," he said; "that gate was open so stuff could be brought in on the freight cars." Roy Blakeley's Camp on Wheels The big stone bridge is crowded with freight cars loaded with material for repairing the structure and with people who are eager to see something horrible. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin “The strikers have blown up a freight car with dynamite,” replied the flagman. Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail These lighters hold as much as a railroad freight car. The Critic in the Orient Did you notice on your way down that the railroad sidings between Chattanooga and Marietta were filled with freight cars? Chasing an Iron Horse Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War It had a couple of baggage cars and a couple of freight cars and a refrigerator car and one passenger car at the end. Roy Blakeley's Camp on Wheels The bodies are being brought up and laid out in freight cars. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin In the distance Ralph saw the mere skeleton of a freight car. Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail Each truck on the passenger cars is provided with two large wheels, exactly like those on freight cars, and these wheels have wooden felloes and spokes. The Critic in the Orient He pointed to the rear platform of the end freight car, from which was suspended a piece of red bunting. Chasing an Iron Horse Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War Piece by piece, it was chipped away and brought to the Earth in Interplanetary freight cars. John Jones's Dollar Notice the long lines of freight cars loaded with supplies. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin The truth is, Zeph, I fancy I have discovered a clew to that missing freight car.” Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail These yeggmen do not confine themselves to breaking into freight cars and stations along the line of the road. A Woman at Bay Or, a Fiend in Skirts He quickly backed the train to Adairsville, where the freight cars were dropped. Chasing an Iron Horse Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War "Instruct Colonel Henry to complete preparations for the theoretical destruction of the railroad station, the sidings, and all passenger and freight cars now here," he directed next. The Boy Scout Automobilists or, Jack Danby in the Woods The tracks are filled with freight cars packed with supplies, and the platform is filled with men and women ready to take them. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin Woods confessed that he had duplicated keys and seals for the doors and ventilators of the freight cars, and the bold thieveries along the Great Northern now ceased. Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail The robbery of freight cars had always kept the hoboes well supplied with such articles. A Woman at Bay Or, a Fiend in Skirts The cars that we rode in were the box or freight cars in use in those days. The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 The furniture and books and dolls and clothes were all packed and loaded on a freight car to follow them to the city and all the dear friends had been given a farewell. Mary Jane's City Home He set at work handling coffins, but as soon as the first freight car of goods arrived he was put in charge of their distribution and has been working like threemen ever since. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin “We expect passenger and freight cars for the road to-day, and on Monday we open the line.” Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail Behind the dock, adjacent to the Spreckels sugar warehouse and wharf, were hundreds of freight cars. Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror Among them were cattle cars, flat or platform cars, and in general every other kind of freight car that could be procured. The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 She was looking out of the freight car when he arrived, and he noted with a secret qualm that she shook her head disapprovingly when she saw him. The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives The eight freight cars from Philadelphia which arrived with the relief party on Monday, at 4 o'clock, were distributed from a great storehouse at the terminus of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin Its main structure was an old freight car, to which there had been additions made from time to time. Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail A locomotive with 25 empty freight cars attached, was propelled from Syracuse westward—the day being cold and the wind ahead—at the rate of 16 miles the hour. Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel I just want you to know that in my time, when we rode, it was in any kind of an old freight car, and we were awful glad to get that. The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 These people in the freight cars at least had had transportation and a crude kind of shelter. World's War Events, Vol. II In the rubbish heaped high on the shore near the stone arch bridge is a flat freight car banged and shattered and with a hole stove in its side. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin Additions had been built onto the freight car until the same were longer than the original structure. Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail Three days and nights of rest they had and then were packed into tiny freight cars with a space so small that they had to take turns sitting down. The Search I will now return to the little squad of furloughed Sixty-onesters that was left a while ago on the freight cars at Little Rock. The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 They were almost like freight cars, with benches along the sides. Patty's Friends "I was told that when the viaduct went a loud report was heard just as a couple of freight cars were dashing against it, and the people say that they were loaded with dynamite." The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin The railroad settled with him for two hundred dollars, an old freight car and a free pass for life over the road, including, Limpy Joe stipulated, locomotives and cabooses.” Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail “Do all these skins come from the ranches of our own country?” he inquired one day when, from the window, he saw a train of heavily laden freight cars come rolling into the yard. The Story of Leather It was with satisfaction that all saw two Chicago & North Western freight cars, which Colonel Howell identified as those containing his oil outfit, and next to the extra passenger coach, the special baggage car. On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland We were marched down to the railroad under heavy escort, crowded into freight cars and locked in. The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland A pile of freight cars lodged at the corner of the building and the breakwater thus formed checked the onslaught of floating battering rams. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin When they reached Wilmer and left the train, Van pointed proudly to a train of freight cars on the Great Northern tracks loaded with rails and ties. Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail A double track with a row of freight cars flanked the building opposite, and from these cars a group of men were unloading bundles of skins and tossing them on the platform. The Story of Leather There’s a railroad now between Edmonton and Athabasca Landing and I expect to get my equipment and my stores to the river in freight cars. On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland He stooped to recover it, looking under the freight car, as he did so. The Ranger Boys and the Border Smugglers It was a cabin of boards, long and narrow, about the size and shape of a freight car. The Adventures of Bobby Orde The ground in spots was full of hollows, and over these the railroad corporation had built a series of trestles, with here and there a shed and a siding for freight cars. An Undivided Union I devoured enough quinine to fill a freight car, and yet it was always the same old story, fever to-day, to-morrow, for six months in the year. The Goose Man Barrels of spirits, taken from the freight cars, and opened and drunk, made demons of the men, and the work of plunder and destruction of goods in transit went on with renewed fury. Historical Essays A sudden breeze lifted Phil's hat, causing him to chase it along the side of a string of freight cars. The Ranger Boys and the Border Smugglers She said she couldn't, but would wager that I wouldn't sleep in a freight car, nor go without my supper. Twenty Years of Hus'ling The "siding" or track where freight cars may be held for unloading, has formed the beginning of many a town. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges Then the hands in turn began to shrink down and the cuffs to grow up into great, thick things as cumbersome as the couplings of a freight car. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights Still it was to their relief when they saw an engine and a single freight car coming up the track. A Prisoner of Morro In the Hands of the Enemy The boys amused themselves by checking off the various railroad lines that were represented by the markings on the different freight cars. The Ranger Boys and the Border Smugglers They provided iron tanks in the shape of a cylinder fastened to freight cars, much like those employed to-day. Diggers in the Earth Ponderous compounding engines weighing one hundred and twenty tons haul ninety or more steel freight cars that carry each a load of 100,000 pounds. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges He saw the "General" going at full speed up the road with three freight cars attached. Stories Of Georgia They marched past miles of obstructed railroad track to Patterson, where the switches were crammed full of freight cars and “killed” engines. Bamboo Tales Long lines of freight cars filled the trackage, and overloaded switch engines struggled with ever-growing burdens to avert the inevitable blockade of the night. The Daughter of a Magnate It is dumped into freight cars and trundled off to the smelting furnaces. Diggers in the Earth We were transported in box freight cars, rough board benches for seats. Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After They thought either that the locomotive had been carried up the track to take on or leave a freight car, or that some practical joker was playing a prank. Stories Of Georgia About noon those of us who appeared unable to march farther were put on top of freight cars, and carried about a dozen miles east to Waynesboro. Lights and Shadows in Confederate Prisons A Personal Experience, 1864-5 Neither passenger nor freight cars can run through from one city to the other, but all passengers and freight must be transferred at the frontier.” The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent That afternoon saw the last dray load of boxes and furniture taken down to be loaded into the freight car. Chicken Little Jane Only a few trains beside the baggage and freight cars were allowed through the city. A Little Girl in Old New York It was a "mixed" train, being composed of three freight cars, a baggage car, and the passenger coaches. Stories Of Georgia I worked part of my way, and stole rides on freight cars part of the way, until I found myself in Seattle. The Blue Birds' Winter Nest But having reached the city, by stolen rides on the top of freight cars, and plunging again into its maelstrom, he found himself still in the clutch of this unnamable horror. Flamsted quarries Seven hundred passenger trains and ten thousand loaded freight cars run to and from her terminals every day. A Short History of Pittsburgh As is frequently the way with millionaires, few of those who emerged from the day coach sandwiched in between a coal and freight car, looked their millions. The Fighting Shepherdess “And we also saw some freight cars carrying cannon,” put in Mary. The Rover Boys Under Canvas or The Mystery of the Wrecked Submarine When Paul's wound had healed sufficiently to enable him to travel, he was put into a freight car with his comrades and sent to the Rebel prison at Andersonville. Winning His Way As soon as she docked, the cargo was quickly transferred to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad freight car No. 45169, which was awaiting it. Secret Armies The New Technique of Nazi Warfare He grabbed in with them; the boxes of dynamite were soon transferred to the freight car of the narrow-gauge and stacked in one end of the car. Joan of Arc of the North Woods "But I ain't got the carfare, and I hate to try riding on the freight cars again." From Farm to Fortune or Nat Nason's Strange Experience James Corbley, spent on board transport, watching the third battalion disembark and getting on board the freight cars that were to carry them down to the Railroad Front. The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 The canvas men swarmed around the tents and swiftly took them down and conveyed them to the freight cars, where they assisted the razorbacks to pack them in small compass. The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus There it found a long train of freight cars before it on the bridge. Christmas Every Day and Other Stories “I did my best, Latisan, to have your shipment loaded from the freight car on the main line, but they wouldn’t let me.” Joan of Arc of the North Woods At the door of the freight car which I had chartered, he hesitated, but only for an instant. A Daughter of the Middle Border The camps of the other railroads consisted of freight cars and passenger coaches converted into sleeping and eating quarters for the men. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 He was usually represented in his Sunday clothes, with a pleasing smile, and a granite goatee on his chin as big as a narrow-gauge freight car. A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel Strings of freight cars were stretched out on the sidings, and either side of the railroad yard was flanked by large manufacturing buildings, which already were showing preliminary signs of industrial activity. The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service From his place in the end of the freight car Latisan could command only a narrow slice of outdoors through the open side door. Joan of Arc of the North Woods They rolled in beside the platform and the long string of freight cars bumped, groaned, squeaked and stopped. Every Man for Himself But strange as it was, the circus, where he now found himself, seemed much nicer to Nero than being cooped up in the dark ship or in the freight car. Nero, the Circus Lion His Many Adventures As he did so, he heard a locomotive whistle, and a locomotive rolled past, followed by a long line of empty freight cars. The Young Bridge-Tender or, Ralph Nelson's Upward Struggle Far down the railroad embankment which passed the rear of the house, an engine puffed lazily cityward with a load of empty freight cars. A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life The arriving train dragged slowly into the station and Latisan kept pace with the freight car which was attached next behind the locomotive. Joan of Arc of the North Woods The last I saw of the tramp," the prisoner told him, "he was settled in an empty freight car, and bound for the city. Afloat or, Adventures on Watery Trails The great Eads Bridge was twisted all out of shape, and freight cars were tossed to and fro, tumbled into ditches and driven sometimes into the fields many yards from where they had stood. The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado A freight car came to a halt directly in front of Ralph, the big side doors wide open. The Young Bridge-Tender or, Ralph Nelson's Upward Struggle Often they traveled in freight cars, as transportation was limited, or drove long distances in wagons over the sun-baked prairie. Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian Women, children and old men—not a young man was among them, of course—they poured from the freight cars that in the main they occupied. The Boy Scouts on the Trail On the rails were a number of freight cars, several of the kind called "box," because they look like big boxes on wheels. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South Jim saw a jumbled heap of freight cars half in the stream and half out, and a little ways further on was the rusty ruin of a once powerful locomotive. Frontier Boys in Frisco He was a prisoner in the freight car and riding he knew not where. The Young Bridge-Tender or, Ralph Nelson's Upward Struggle The freight cars on the accommodation train jostled and rocked about and heaved up laterally, till they resembled a long line of awkward, frightened, galloping buffaloes. Wayside Courtships He did not share the vexation of his fellow-passengers when a wreck of freight cars on the track bade fair to delay the train some hours, awaiting the clearance of the obstructions. The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee "In that freight car, I think," his sister went on. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South I rode to Boston in a freight car after the convention was over, late at night. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 They knew he was alive when he boarded the empty freight car! The Young Bridge-Tender or, Ralph Nelson's Upward Struggle "A fellow who was with us got locked in a freight car," Roy explained, "and we signaled to people up this way to stop the train." Tom Slade at Temple Camp The girl threw herself down beside an empty freight car and dug her cold finger nails into her hot temples. A Pagan of the Hills If it had been a little dog in the freight car the children would have whistled, and the dog, very likely, would have run to them, wagging its tail. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South Some loaded freight cars, their contents untouched, likewise stood on the spur. The Border Boys Across the Frontier He found a pile of old bagging in one end of the freight car and sat down to rest. Dave Porter at Star Ranch Or, The Cowboy's Secret Another story is that they have been shipped through to Liège in closed freight cars to outwit German spies, and that they are now in the thick of it. A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium A week later Jason led Pilgrim out of the freight car in which he had traveled from Washington to a railway station twenty-five miles from home. Benefits Forgot A Story of Lincoln and Mother Love All this while the freight car was being hauled farther and farther away from the railroad station. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South But the tracks lay empty and shining before them, without even a freight car backed upon a siding to suggest the activity that, at this time of the week, usually reigned about the mine. The Border Boys Across the Frontier That is Dave Porter, the fellow who put me on the freight car. Dave Porter at Star Ranch Or, The Cowboy's Secret The hotels were filled to overflowing, and people were living in freight cars, sheds and on the sidewalk. A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium He was compelled to camp in a freight car. The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis But if it was difficult for him to walk in a regular passenger car, it was much harder in the swaying freight car. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South He happened to glance out and noticed that their car was on a siding and that numerous other tracks contained many coaches and freight cars of different kinds. Ralph Granger's Fortunes Then he had to tell his uncle how Nat had been put aboard the freight car. Dave Porter at Star Ranch Or, The Cowboy's Secret At present the seventy freight car laws are enforced only in Arizona and Oklahoma, with a fourteen car passenger car limit in Arizona. The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 Burlap sacks covered him when night fell; they dirtied his clothing and the bottom of the freight car scuffed his shoes. The Fourth R Quickly he told of the ride of Bunny and Sue in the freight car, and Mrs. Black came out, followed by a large maltese cat, and soon made the Brown children welcome. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South Then a long line of freight cars obstructed the view. Big Brother He continued to sleep during the stop at Jack's Junction, and he did not notice another52 party enter the freight car, nor did he notice the door being closed and locked. Dave Porter at Star Ranch Or, The Cowboy's Secret Standing there in the cemetery, as I listened to old Emmaline tell of the old days, I could see cotton being loaded on freight cars at the depot. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3 His view was blocked by some freight cars that were standing on the C. & S. C. tracks at some distance to the east. Calumet "K" The children had climbed into an empty freight car that was standing on a siding, as the extra tracks around a railroad station are called. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South Then he was frightened and ran away and, making the railway station, hid in a freight car and got away. Betty at Fort Blizzard When the toy barge and tug-boat were right in the middle of the "stage," three or four toy freight cars were allowed to slide off into the water. Writing the Photoplay Fortunately no other lives were lost, though the passengers were terribly shaken up, and two of the freight cars were piled up on the engine. Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XII, Jan. 3, 1891 When I jumped from the freight car, I took a taxicab to the Professor’s and called for him, as arranged.” The Black Box For if the door had opened suddenly the little boy might have been pitched out, for the train of empty freight cars was now moving swiftly. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South In 1894 the vanguard of home seekers left Indiana in fourteen passenger coaches, filled with men, women, and children, and forty-eight freight cars carrying their household goods and live stock. History of the United States Here the rough handling began again until they were laden on a freight car due to go out that night. The Bradys and the Girl Smuggler or, Working for the Custom House The shrill shriek of a Great Northern locomotive, trundling freight cars through the gloom, gave the death-stroke to the old boy-dream. The River and I “I travelled from number ten tower, just outside New York, on top of a freight car,” he said grimly. The Black Box "Didn't you ever see 'em run along on top of the freight cars?" asked Sue. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South Was the output of food for his freight cars limited by bad drainage on the farms? History of the United States And the boy ran behind a freight car to shelter him from the gaze of the passengers in the waiting train. The Bradys and the Girl Smuggler or, Working for the Custom House Pete glanced out and saw a little red box of a building, four or five empty freight cars, and a curve of rail that swung off south from the main line. The Ridin' Kid from Powder River I found these finely disciplined fellows next morning sitting in the doorways of their freight cars. World's War Events Volume 3 Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919. It came toward them, and in the light that came through the crack in the freight car door the children saw that their fellow traveler was a very ragged man—a regular tramp in fact. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South Refrigeration for steamships and freight cars put the markets of great cities at the doors of Southern fruit and vegetable gardeners. History of the United States Almost immediately, through the open doorway space of the freight car an arm was protruded. Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent There freight cars are all Ford models to. "Same old Bill, eh Mable!" Judging from the above, I should say that no wheel larger than one 33 in. in diameter should be used under freight cars. Scientific American Supplement, No. 794, March 21, 1891 Bunny Brown and his sister Sue in that freight car with Nutty, the tramp, and Toddle, the kitten, a flickering candle giving light as the ragged man set out his store of nuts. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South March 23—Crowds in streets of Venice clamor for war; Government orders seizure of twenty-nine freight cars with material destined for Krupp gun works in Germany. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915 April-September, 1915 Then he groaned again as his eyes lit on the freight car. Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent "Get a ticket and get it quickly for the train will soon start, and put the dog in the freight car." Pixy's Holiday Journey The coach in which Henry sat was attached to the end of a long string of freight cars. A Little Book for Christmas Nutty arose and walked over to the partly opened door of the freight car. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South Last year the rolling stock of the railroads was increased by some 54,000 freight cars, but it is probable that the additional orders this year will reach 100,000. The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890 He went at once to the freight car whence he had seen the ragged arm extended two hours previous, and looked in. Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent "Whose black fiend of a dog is that, running loose about a freight car?" she exclaimed angrily. Pixy's Holiday Journey The engine and freight cars were not there! A Little Book for Christmas They had slept pretty well at Mrs. Black's home, but they were still tired from their bumping, jolting journey in the rough freight car. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South She did not see Mrs. Vanderpool arriving from New Orleans; but Mrs. Vanderpool saw her, and looked curiously at the tall, tragic figure that leaned so dolorously beside the freight car. The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel Well, let me share your troubles, let me hide you in a more comfortable way than lounging around cold freight cars with half enough to eat. Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent "We can board an electric car and get there in time to tell Brother Fritz about the freight car, and you boys can help watch for the boy." Pixy's Holiday Journey In making his way North he walked of nights from his home to Harrisburg, Pa., and there availed himself of a passage on a freight car coming to Philadelphia. The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. During the night the train on which they rode had a little collision with an empty freight car which was standing on a side track. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South For a minute the train roared on past suburban stations, under viaducts, through echoing rows of freight cars, and over clattering switches. John Henry Smith A Humorous Romance of Outdoor Life "You can't sleep forever in empty freight cars, picking up scraps to live on, you know," said Bart. Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent I venture upon the landing and make my way along a line of freight cars—between the track and the mill. The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls On January 24, 1833, the first freight cars were put on the railroad. Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891 Bunny and Sue were so surprised when they found that they were being hauled away in the closed and dark freight car that for a time after their first startled cries they said nothing. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South So vast in proportions is the yearly crop of food stuffs that more than three hundred thousand freight cars and about two thousand vessels are required to move the crop from farm to market. Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 He stood staring, spellbound, at the partly open door of the nearest freight car. Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent Innumerable tramways ring their way up and down wire-lined avenues; occasionally a train of freight cars announces itself with a warning bell in the city's midst. The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls When the mail was gone on its way westward, the midnight silence settled down again, with nothing but the minimized crashings of freight cars in the lower shifting-yard to disturb it. The Taming of Red Butte Western It was at one of these times that they felt a sudden bump and jar—almost like the time when the engine had hitched itself to the freight car. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South The length of the compartment, which is the width of the car, is about a foot and a half less than the width of our passenger cars, about equal to our freight cars. Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 He rapidly covered the two hundred foot space between the express shed and the freight car. Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent It is possible to send a through freight car two thousand miles in ten or twelve hours. Life in a Thousand Worlds He then set out on his travels, going in an empty freight car from the Lumberton railroad yards. Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures Or, Helping the Dormitory Fund Bunny and Sue did not know just what to make of this ragged tramp who was traveling in the freight car with them. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South The new hands were lodged in freight cars, when off work, for it wasn't safe for them to pass outside the guard lines of soldiers. The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him "All right, only it was you who waved an arm at him from the freight car this afternoon, wasn't it, now?" Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent They are run on their own schedule and sometimes attached to freight cars. Life in a Thousand Worlds Len, who's about the size of a freight car, smiles kind of sickish at this, and says he hopes there's no hard feelings among old friends and lodge brothers; and Egbert says, Oh, no! Somewhere in Red Gap The engine must have backed down, coupled on to the freight cars, and hauled them off while I slept. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South There were some substitutes for strikers in freight cars that were fitted up with bunks. The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him He says come on up the other side of them freight cars, where they can be more private for their consultation. Ma Pettengill |
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