How To Use Boxcars In A Sentence
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A rail system can reroute traffic around destroyed tracks, repair sections of damaged rail, or even transfer freight from boxcars to trucks.
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When I was a kid straight out of high school, I went to work for a large supply house unloading trucks and boxcars.
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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.
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Some of them travelled in fifth class, which consisted of boxcars totally bereft of comfort.
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By contrast, the Galactica has to drag along a ragtag fugitive fleet where most of the people live in boxcars.
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Graduating from high school in 1956, I went to work unloading freight from trucks and boxcars for $40 a week.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Back then in 1966, I thought nothing of the F units and E units and ALCOs, passenger trains, cabooses and 40 foot boxcars that were the norm in the USA.
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The locomotives lead two express boxcars, a heritage baggage, a business class coach, café, three more coaches, and two or three express cars at the end.
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Appearing in April, "American Letters: 1927-1947" Polity, 252 pages, $25 , a collection of the Pollock family correspondence, bears witness to the hardscrabble reality of the artist's upbringing amid boxcars and barren homesteads—the incubator of his creative vision.
A Painter in Her Own Right
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They came here and lived in boxcars, raised their families here and became our early residents.
Driving Without English
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The last time they did it, they cut away early to let Bill "boxcars" Bennett spin the debate before it was even finished and displayed banners calling it the "Democrat" party debate.
Hullabaloo
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By the end of the century, the railroad yards at Houston each ginning season were clogged with long lines of boxcars and flatcars stacked high with bales of cotton.
THE AMERICAN WEST
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Three engines and 11 boxcars derailed near the 3800 block of Croton Avenue.
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Somebody who actually rode in boxcars to a German concentration camp?
Think Progress » “One of the Worst Abandonments of Americans on American Soil Ever”
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Many agricultural workers continue to live the equivalent of an old-South sharecropper existence in tarpaper shacks, plywood shanties and wooden boxcars with no running water.
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Because of different rail gauges, sometimes freight had to be unloaded and then reloaded on boxcars.
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The locomotives lead two express boxcars, a heritage baggage, a business class coach, café, three more coaches, and two or three express cars at the end.
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boxcars" -- razor knives -- to inflict damage: an Asian girl, it was said, was cut up bad, and a non-skin nearly lost an eye.
Chicago Reader
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It is clear that large numbers of migrants avoided the boxcars of emigrant fifth and travelled fourth.
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It is clear that large numbers of migrants avoided the boxcars of emigrant fifth and travelled fourth.
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The Union Pacific train was backing into a parked string of five boxcars to transport them, but accidentally struck the sitting boxcars, sending one off of the tracks and into the adjacent cold storage facility.
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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.
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Though undoubtedly inspired by the Civil Rights Movement, it recalls the locomotives and boxcars of the Underground Railroad at times and the souls of millions lost to the rigorous Middle Passage at others.
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He invented an alternative biography about working-class roots, an upbringing in New Mexico and hopping boxcars across the country.
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Graduating from high school in 1956, I went to work unloading freight from trucks and boxcars for $40 a week.
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Three engines and 11 boxcars derailed near the 3800 block of Croton Avenue.
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Even in postwar America, nostalgia and wanderlust kept tramp wannabes hopping boxcars.
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Originally the railroad moved the trees in boxcars to Los Angeles where they were spotted for unloading by a wide variety of vendors.
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Cohen includes a category of songs about hoboes, tramps, vagabonds, etc. who populated the boxcars and rail-yards in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century.
