Sentence examples for flatcar from inspiring English sources
The word "flatcar" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to a railroad freight car with a level floor (also known as a flat wagon or flatbed). For example, "The construction crew unloaded the building materials from the flatcar onto the construction site."
noun
A railroad freight car without sides or a roof.
In Europe, few railroads had clearances ample enough to accept a highway box trailer piggybacked on a flatcar of normal frame height.
Primary standard cesium clocks, such as NIST-F1 in Boulder, Colo., are about as large as a railroad flatcar.
Or if he did manage to scramble onto a rolling flatcar but then lost his hold and tumbled off the train in fifty miles, and was lucky enough to survive, he would have to hobble up to some stranger's door with a broken shoulder, torn clothes, a face full of gravel, smelling of alcohol, and no pedigree at all.Chief left Ringling Brothers even before I did.
A section of six windows will be washed from top to the top, and the flatcar moved into a new position.
"You might be seen by a supervisor on a flatcar.
He got an engine to bring an empty flatcar to the top of the slope that ran down to the siding, and he ordered the driver to stop; from there the car would freewheel down, and at the bottom he would stop it by placing a wedge between the rails.
As shipping lines developed their container transport business in the early 1960s, European railroads concentrated initially on container-on-flatcar (COFC) intermodal systems.
From: Chief Z. Z. Lawless, Mumsdorf Police Department, Mumsdorf To: "Gifts for the Good Guys," c/o the Pentagon My men and I sincerely appreciated the overnight railway-flatcar delivery of the XX-B Annihilator Halftrack Urban Ambassador, which is already earning its keep.
After two shows daily and the teardown, which took place at night, the wagons and teams followed flares to the train, where they rolled back onto the flatcars to disappear into the night and begin the process again the next day in another town.
On circus day the train arrived with its stockcars, perhaps with elephant trunks probing outside openings, and a long line of flatcars loaded with red baggage wagons, pole wagons, bandwagons, tableaux, chariots, the steam boiler wagon, and canvas-covered wild-animal cages.
In his first season with Barnum, Coup developed a new system of loading circus wagons onto railroad flatcars.
