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But it’s expected that the most expensive repair and replacement items — new subway rolling stock — will be the first on the chopping block.
—Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 22 June 2024
Imagination won’t pay for new signals or rolling stock or refurbishing stations or installing elevators to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 11 June 2024
The money also went toward rehabilitating stations, signals, tracks and power systems as well as repair shops, to upgrade the existing rolling stock.
—Sam Roberts, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2023
The rolling stock behind our locomotive includes a coal car, U.S. Mail Rail Post Office 706, West Virginia Central diner 202, Western Maryland Railroad passenger cars 3607 and 835, and Chesapeake & Ohio caboose 90658.
—Mark Orwoll, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1847, in the meaning defined above
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“Rolling stock.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rolling%20stock. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
Kids Definition
rolling stock
noun
: wheeled vehicles owned or used by a railroad or trucking company
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