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How To Use boxcars In A Sentence

• A rail system can reroute traffic around destroyed tracks, repair sections of damaged rail, or even transfer freight from boxcars to trucks.
• When I was a kid straight out of high school, I went to work for a large supply house unloading trucks and boxcars.
• The TLC will handle lumber, steel, aluminum and food products, and is designed to load and unload all types of railcars from centerbeams to boxcars and gondolas.
• Some of them travelled in fifth class, which consisted of boxcars totally bereft of comfort.
• By contrast, the Galactica has to drag along a ragtag fugitive fleet where most of the people live in boxcars. Archive 2009-06-01
• Graduating from high school in 1956, I went to work unloading freight from trucks and boxcars for $40 a week.
• For a boxcar of widgets to make it across country, it typically has to stop and sit in rail yards waiting to get "humped," or reshuffled, with other boxcars headed in the same direction five times. Join The Cold Train
• Will the sound still call to mind the glamorous era of American intercontinental railway journey when the dashing Cary Grant and the lovely Eva Marie Saint drank champagne in plush, oak-paneled boxcars while evading cops, spies and double agents against the backdrop of the national landscape? A Radioactive River Runs Through It
• As the American POWs disembarked from the German boxcars, they were met by these trains, which had "U.S." painted on the sides and were decorated with American flags. Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I
• I worked a ta community theare that was a repurposed trainstation, the dressing rooms were repurposed passenger cars and the prop and costume closets were repurposed boxcars. A Gallery of Repurposed Train Cars