How to Use railcar in a Sentence

railcar

noun

• The city is in the process of rolling out 254 new railcars.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Sep. 2024
• The railcars were loaded with iron ore and spilled, South said.
  — Matthias Gafni, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2023
• At the end of the program, Metro says, 85 percent of its fleet would consist of new railcars.
  — Faiz Siddiqui, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2018
• Robert Cramer expects to have new railcars in place for the Detroit People Mover in the next 18 months.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 10 June 2024
• The trains — usually one big diesel railcar — are sleek and new.
  — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 23 June 2018
• Some have the shotgun look and barrel ceilings of an old railcar.
  — OregonLive.com, 20 Jan. 2018
• On arrival, each is transferred from railcar to truck and hauled to the top of a mound as tall as a 15-story building.
  — Curbed, 12 Aug. 2022
• Blaine Wilmotte was in a truck traveling south on I-5 when a railcar trapped him for 90 minutes.
  — Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times, 14 Sep. 2019
• Then if not that, at least until Sound Transit has more railcars.
  — Mike Lindblom, The Seattle Times, 24 June 2017
• Skyllingstad was a passenger on the train when his railcar left the tracks after the train approached a 30-mph curve going 78 mph.
  — NBC News, 14 Sep. 2019
• There it’s plucked off the ship and goes onto a railcar for a trip to Niagara, New York, where its contents will be burned.
  — Curbed, 12 Aug. 2022
• Loading those folks on the flatbed railcars doesn't look comfortable at all.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 1 Sep. 2017
• A few extra minutes in a car, bus or railcar are not the only downsides to longer commutes.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 7 July 2017
• Blaine Wilmotte was a passenger in a truck on Interstate 5 when a railcar crashed onto the truck from the overpass.
  — NBC News, 14 Sep. 2019
• The railcars that spilled into the river were empty or carrying Coors Light and Blue Moon, the agency said.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2023
• The owners of railcars and barges will have to pay interest on these even if parked on sidings or tied to river banks for months on end.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 9 June 2019
• Often the size of a small house, these devices weigh hundreds of tons and must be transported by special railcars and trucks.
  — Thomas Popik, Foreign Affairs, 3 Feb. 2023
• The railcar and the train operator remain out of service.
  — CBS News, 3 May 2022
• The train has a railcar that can accommodate one wheelchair (call ahead to arrange).
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 May 2022
• Steel pipe to be used in construction of an oil pipeline sat on railcars in Kamloops, Canada, last month.
  — Paul Vieira, WSJ, 29 June 2018
• When the railcar hatch is opened, the grain is pulled in by a drag conveyer, which empties into an elevator that goes up to the top of the silo.
  — Cindy Atoji Keene, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Mar. 2018
• The rail-barge link allows railcars loaded in the Lower 48 to be barged to Whittier where they are added to Alaska Railroad trains.
  — Elwood Brehmer, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Apr. 2020
• The three railcars that derailed after that first collision blocked the adjacent track, and the third train smashed into them at about 22 mph (35 kph).
  — Josh Funk, Quartz, 26 Mar. 2024
• Some railcars landed on Interstate 5 beneath the gray train bridge at DuPont.
  — Mike Lindblom, The Seattle Times, 10 July 2018
• This will take serious equipment: A crane will lift the five-ton Danish rescue boat and the 10-1/2 ton railcar to a secured pad nearby.
  — Alyson Ward, Houston Chronicle, 29 Jan. 2018
• Prior to launch, the ship was translated from land to the floating dry dock using translation railcars to support the ship.
  — Warren Kulo | [e-mail], al, 15 Aug. 2023
• Speaking in cadence while sitting atop trunks lined up as railcars, Bess and Beth reenact their excited train trip to meet the City of Benares.
  — OregonLive.com, 15 Jan. 2018
• But the time had come to move beyond the 40-by-10-foot railcar, and Mixtli announced plans to move into a bigger space in Southtown, a move that finally happened in June.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Oct. 2021
• Made of metal and concrete, it was built in the 1960s and, like the other tunnel, holds railcars containing radioactive waste.
  — Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times, 30 June 2017
• Norfolk Southern used explosives to breach the tanker railcars and drained the contents into the ground before burning them.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 24 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Oct 2024