"flat cars" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a type of train car that has a flat, open surface for carrying goods or vehicles. Example: The shipment of new cars arrived at the factory on a train of flat cars.
Along with some less massive artillery pieces they are brought to the Brooklyn Army base on 79 flat cars.
Ribonuclease is formed from 19 types of amino acid; producing it is like assembling a train made up of 19 kinds of freight cars — box cars, flat cars, cement cars.
"By using railroads, we are achieving some economy on fuel," said Dan England, chairman of C. R. England, a family-owned company based in Salt Lake City that runs 3,600 tractor-trailers and now regularly loads 350 of the trailers on railroad flat cars to get them from, say, Chicago to Los Angeles.
While much of the carload business has disappeared from Manhattan since the line's demise, there is a huge market for intermodal service -- truck trailers and containers on railroad flat cars and RoadRailers (truck trailers featuring both tires and removable rail axles).
Rapid growth of intermodal shipping (truck trailers on railway flat cars) is a big part of Norfolk's strategy.
The impact of inter-modal traffic further complicates this position with a range of product and service offers available in North America including trailers on flat cars (TOFC), twin stack domestic and twin stack international containers.
The only thing I buy is a £12.99 device that claims to be able to restart a flat car battery.
"Becoming a tokal would be a fairytale," she says during a break at the café where she works, using the Kazakh word for the youngest of two wives, who traditionally gets her own flat, car and monthly allowance.
'She could just sit back and enjoy life, but she has a dream.' For his own part, he could have stayed with Carole: flat, car, pay cheque at the end of the month.
Like perfect pitch, which dooms the possessor to hear every false note and flat car horn, perfect timing may just make a drummer more sensitive to the world's arrhythmias and repeated patterns, Eagleman said — to the flicker of computer screens and fluorescent lights.
Between Marlborough Sounds and Abel Tasman we pulled in at the Trout Hotel before Canvastown, and bumped our way down the Wakamarina track to the Butchers Flat car park, past a sign saying: "Keep going, it's worth it", to a series of emerald pools.
