Sentence examples for transit car from inspiring English sources

The two men were middle managers at the Coney Island Rapid Transit Car Overhaul Shop, a sprawling maintenance yard near the southern terminus of the F line.

Am I saying his name right?" asked Nicholas Matteo, 67, a retired transit car inspector, as he sat before a three-deep stack of syrupy pancakes, referring to Bill de Blasio, the public advocate and a Democrat.

"I came in to grieve based on the fact that two years ago I was paying $6,000 in taxes and today it's $10,000," said Hector Clark, a New York City Transit car inspector who lives in a high ranch in Babylon.

In a petroleum crisis, individuals have choices: mass transit, car pooling or even walking.

Second is to modify the design of transit car bogies such that the wheel/rail forces are reduced.

The stated-preference experiments offered respondents a choice between traditional transit, car, and a hypothetical flexible transit mode.

Lohnerwerke, founded in 1823, specialized in making rapid transit cars, and its acquisition helped Bombardier's expansion into rail transit equipment.

NEW YORK SUBWAYS: An Illustrated History of New York City's Transit Cars By Gene Sansone (Johns Hopkins University Press) This detailed history of the city's transit system is filled with technical data and lavishly illustrated depictions of nearly every type of subway car in the city's history, from the era of steam and cable to the present.

Last July the Chicago Transit Authority placed a $577 million order with Bombardier for 406 rapid transit cars.

Noise control treatments for the propulsion motor noise of rapid transit cars on concrete elevated structures and the noise reduction from barrier walls were investigated by using acoustical scale models and supplemented by field measurements of noise from trains operated by the Port Authority Transportation Corporation PATCOO) in New Jersey.

Ticketholders will have an hour to explore the space, which includes the 1878 Money Car G, the oldest existing mass-transit car.