How to Use railcar in a Sentence

railcar

noun
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  • The railcars were loaded with iron ore and spilled, South said.
    — Matthias Gafni, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2023
  • At the end of the program, Metro says, 85 percent of its fleet would consist of new railcars.
    — Faiz Siddiqui, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2018
  • Robert Cramer expects to have new railcars in place for the Detroit People Mover in the next 18 months.
    — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 10 June 2024
  • The trains — usually one big diesel railcar — are sleek and new.
    — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 23 June 2018
  • Some have the shotgun look and barrel ceilings of an old railcar.
    — OregonLive.com, 20 Jan. 2018
  • On arrival, each is transferred from railcar to truck and hauled to the top of a mound as tall as a 15-story building.
    — Curbed, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Blaine Wilmotte was in a truck traveling south on I-5 when a railcar trapped him for 90 minutes.
    — Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times, 14 Sep. 2019
  • Then if not that, at least until Sound Transit has more railcars.
    — Mike Lindblom, The Seattle Times, 24 June 2017
  • Skyllingstad was a passenger on the train when his railcar left the tracks after the train approached a 30-mph curve going 78 mph.
    — NBC News, 14 Sep. 2019
  • There it’s plucked off the ship and goes onto a railcar for a trip to Niagara, New York, where its contents will be burned.
    — Curbed, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Loading those folks on the flatbed railcars doesn't look comfortable at all.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 1 Sep. 2017
  • A few extra minutes in a car, bus or railcar are not the only downsides to longer commutes.
    — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 7 July 2017
  • Blaine Wilmotte was a passenger in a truck on Interstate 5 when a railcar crashed onto the truck from the overpass.
    — NBC News, 14 Sep. 2019
  • The railcars that spilled into the river were empty or carrying Coors Light and Blue Moon, the agency said.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The owners of railcars and barges will have to pay interest on these even if parked on sidings or tied to river banks for months on end.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 9 June 2019
  • The railcar and the train operator remain out of service.
    — CBS News, 3 May 2022
  • The train has a railcar that can accommodate one wheelchair (call ahead to arrange).
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 May 2022
  • Steel pipe to be used in construction of an oil pipeline sat on railcars in Kamloops, Canada, last month.
    — Paul Vieira, WSJ, 29 June 2018
  • When the railcar hatch is opened, the grain is pulled in by a drag conveyer, which empties into an elevator that goes up to the top of the silo.
    — Cindy Atoji Keene, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Mar. 2018
  • The rail-barge link allows railcars loaded in the Lower 48 to be barged to Whittier where they are added to Alaska Railroad trains.
    — Elwood Brehmer, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Apr. 2020
  • The three railcars that derailed after that first collision blocked the adjacent track, and the third train smashed into them at about 22 mph (35 kph).
    — Josh Funk, Quartz, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Some railcars landed on Interstate 5 beneath the gray train bridge at DuPont.
    — Mike Lindblom, The Seattle Times, 10 July 2018
  • This will take serious equipment: A crane will lift the five-ton Danish rescue boat and the 10-1/2 ton railcar to a secured pad nearby.
    — Alyson Ward, Houston Chronicle, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Prior to launch, the ship was translated from land to the floating dry dock using translation railcars to support the ship.
    — Warren Kulo | Wkulo@al.com, al, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Speaking in cadence while sitting atop trunks lined up as railcars, Bess and Beth reenact their excited train trip to meet the City of Benares.
    — OregonLive.com, 15 Jan. 2018
  • But the time had come to move beyond the 40-by-10-foot railcar, and Mixtli announced plans to move into a bigger space in Southtown, a move that finally happened in June.
    — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Made of metal and concrete, it was built in the 1960s and, like the other tunnel, holds railcars containing radioactive waste.
    — Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times, 30 June 2017
  • Norfolk Southern used explosives to breach the tanker railcars and drained the contents into the ground before burning them.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Tour guide and brand manager Adam Hall leads us over to a brick building, built in the late 1860s and once operated by the railcar maker Pullman Co.
    — Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 13 May 2024
  • The operator then spotted the snowplow ahead and applied the emergency brakes on the train, made up of two, nearly decade-old 5000-series cars, which is CTA’s most common railcar model.
    — Sarah Freishtat, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2024

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