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Baggage car   /bˈægədʒ kɑr/   Listen
Baggage car

noun
1.
A railway car where passengers' bags are carried.  Synonym: luggage van.






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"Baggage car" Quotes from Famous Books



... these are our friends. You can head Banks off by telephone somewhere if we change our minds when we get a trail. Start Brill Young and a good man from Sleepy Cat ahead of us, George, if you can, in a baggage car with any horses that they can get there. They can be at Tower W by daybreak and perhaps pick up a trail before we reach there, and we shall have fresh horses for them. I'm ready, I guess; let's go. Slam the door, George!" ...
— Whispering Smith • Frank H. Spearman

... of impulse, a poet. He got off the train at the next station, bought a piece of meat at a butcher shop, and captured the vagrant on the outskirts of the town. The return trip was made in the baggage car, and so Wolf came a second time to the mountain cottage. Here he was tied up for a week and made love to by the man and woman. But it was very circumspect love-making. Remote and alien as a traveller from another planet, he snarled down their soft-spoken love-words. He never barked. ...
— Love of Life - and Other Stories • Jack London

... railway station, where the old Squire checked their empty image "rafts" in the baggage car. Before they left the old farm, first Emilio and then Tomaso took grandmother Ruth's hand very prettily and said, with deep feeling, "Vi ringrazio," several times, and managed to ...
— A Busy Year at the Old Squire's • Charles Asbury Stephens

... started for New York, a closely packed suitcase in her hand, a closely packed trunk in the baggage car ahead, and some hurting memories to bear her company on ...
— The Shield of Silence • Harriet T. Comstock



Words linked to "Baggage car" :   car, railway car, railcar, railroad car, passenger train



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