dump-car

The locomotive built while the roadbed was getting ready was a four-wheeled iron truck, an ordinary flat dump-car about six feet long and four feet wide, upon which was mounted a ` ` Z '' dynamo used as a motor, so that it had a capacity of about twelve horsepower.

Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 1 1910

The locomotive built while the roadbed was getting ready was a four-wheeled iron truck, an ordinary flat dump-car about six feet long and four feet wide, upon which was mounted a "Z" dynamo used as a motor, so that it had a capacity of about twelve horsepower.

Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905

One stick of it, if properly applied, would blow a locomotive into junk, would tear a dump-car, with its massive iron-work and grinding wheels, apart and leave mere splinters!

In Old Kentucky Edward Marshall 1901