How To Use Sleeping car In A Sentence
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The conductor told us to lock the cabins and not let anyone inside unless he told us to because thieves pretending to be police quite often preyed on the sleeping cars parked in the sidetracks.
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It was back in 1977 that Sherwood acquired two sleeping carriages at a Sotheby's auction in Monte Carlo and began the process of recreating the great train.
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Like the subdued quiet in a sleeping car, at a stop, after a continuous run.
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He was a porter on a Pullman sleeping car during the golden age of rail travel.
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But this does not mean that its unsleeping care is diminished in magnitude or influence.
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The train consisted of an express car, a combination baggage/passenger car, two coaches, a diner, and three sleeping cars.
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A dining car, a sleeping car, and maintenance-of-way equipment might illustrate the jobs of African-American railroaders, yet these are located in different sections of the building.
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American English has the general term car for railway vehicles, which British English only uses in compounds, such as restaurant car or sleeping car.
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After the Civil War, they comprised a sizable proportion of the work force of firemen and brakemen on southern railroads, and they fully occupied service positions on dining and sleeping cars as well as in baggage handling.
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Parks had worked closely with E.D. Nixon, a black trade unionist in Montgomery, the head of the local branch of the sleeping car porters ' union and a longtime fighter for voting rights and other issues.
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They had no privacy and sat up all night because it carried no sleeping car.
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Charles Jenkins concluded: ‘Ultimately he loved Europe and not only for its wagon-lits (railway sleeping cars) and that is why I end by saying adieu.’
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He offered us a seat in coach with a refund of our sleeping car fee, but we were not interested in that.
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In sleeping carriages as well as in trains with only one carriage, smoking compartments must be designated.
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In 1925, the porters organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, which was led by A. Philip Randolph.