Box car

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(Railroads) a freight car covered with a roof and inclosed on the sides to protect its contents.

See also: Box

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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With other men he lived in a box car and away they went from town to town painting the railroad property-switches, crossing gates, bridges, and stations.
"That's my Nirvana: Box Car Racer, Blink-182 and New Found Glory.
Characterizing each of his movies as a "train box car" connected to the preceding and following films to make "one big giant movie," Tarantino said his final film could be "a little bit more apology".
Not only guarding the command post, but he also helped to bring down material that had just arrived from Jakarta to the post or transport material to the box car to be sent to the affected point.
Q I have a Corgi Fawlty Towers TRINKETS Jasper box car and Basil Fawlty figure in its original packaging.
However drivers could keep costs down by taking out a telematics policy, also known as black box car insurance, which uses data -- where, when and how people drive -- to determine the cost of car insurance.
Amethyst crystals were shipped by truck and railway box car all over North America for use as landscape and fireplace stone.
And the movie was shown several times throughout the day in Brownsville's historic Box Car Theatre.
On hot summer days, a good train to hop on would be a "reefer," a refrigerated box car. The best train for a fast trip was a "hotshot," a train that could go ahead of other trains.
Datta formation is interpreted from the gamma ray log trends where sand packages dominantly represent left box car and irregular trend.
He was also chair of the Box Car Commission in 1959, established to investigate the distribution of railway cars.
We'd lost train travel, and more was the pity--sitting in the open door of this box car, feeling the sun on my face and the cooling breeze through my hair as the countryside slid under my soles and across my gaze, I was sure I'd never have this experience again in my life.
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