Sentence examples for flatbed car from inspiring English sources

Sliced in half lengthwise to fit through railroad tunnels, it was shipped to New York on a flatbed car.

They drive it or carry it on a flatbed car, and I park it by the rail yard wherever we are performing.

He has a McDonald's box car, a flatbed car that carries thick sticks that look like miniature logs, a steam locomotive with a snowplow and several circus cars.

Every night, returning to Queens on the No. 7 train and passing over the Sunnyside Yards, I see a small flatbed car on the railroad tracks, always at the same spot.

It has a Santa (an actual person) and his eight tiny reindeer (dead-eyed statues) waving from an open-air flatbed car; it has Christmas classics playing in a loop; elves mingling with passengers in the exhaustively decorated cars, handing out candy canes, leading singalongs.

Sandwiched between two flatbed cars was Johnny Wademan, who had been drilling alongside Ryan.

There, at 8 a.m., a crew of funeral workers hauled nearly 20 man-sized floral displays from inside the building to a long line of flatbed cars.

Imagine a train with flatbed cars chugging down the western shoreline, serving as rolling grandstands for fans paying $5 a head.

Jim Ryan was once in a horrible accident in which a man was sandwiched between two flatbed cars and, wounded, Ryan and others had to amputate a man's foot with a knife to free him.

Out walking a month ago, he waited impatiently at a rail crossing while a freight train slowly passed, its flatbed cars stacked with steel pipes, each wide enough for a child to crawl through.

Mr. Leeds has a backyard that contains a child's wildest fantasy of a miniature railroad universe, complete with more than 200 boxcars, flatbed cars, locomotives, passenger cars and cabooses, and even a railroad shed that stores working trains when they are not tooting their way around 600 feet of G-gauge tracks.