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Example sentences for "freight cars"

  • They would have to be built in large quantities, in order to justify the large immediate expense to adapt any number of freight cars, terminals, and warehouses to their use.

  • The inspection of freight cars in Michigan was not to "estimate present value" but to determine at first hand whether the Master Car Builders rules for valuation were safe to use, and to back up their use in Court.

  • This movement of freight cars makes a valuable barometer of the general condition of business.

  • Freight cars by hundreds of thousands go bumping all over the different railroads of the land, and all the while they are getting bumped and broken in accidents--large and small.

  • The average number of freight cars to a train was then reported as 15.

  • The merger of lines into systems, a facilitated interchange of freight cars, the economic use of terminals, and the consolidation of facilities are suggested ways of economy and efficiency.

  • On the application of the automatic air brake to freight cars it was found the reduction of pressure was not quick enough to set the rear brakes promptly, and in consequence accidents occurred from the bunching of the cars.

  • Down by the line of freight cars," Mrs. Brown answered.

  • On the rails were a number of freight cars, several of the kind called "box," because they look like big boxes on wheels.

  • Freight cars aren't very good places from which to see scenery when you travel.

  • Now the cars were going by, flat cars with guns, tilted up like the muzzles of hunting dogs, freight cars out of which here and there peered a man's head.

  • He was shaking hands with two browned men whose faces were grimy with days of travelling in freight cars.

  • The train was jolting slowly over cross- tracks in some dismal suburb, full of long soot-smeared warehouses and endless rows of freight cars, beyond which lay brown marshland and slate-grey stretches of water.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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