rail-cars

Finally to prove my point, just two months ago there was a tragic commuter rail crash in Virginia, wher the rail-cars were dated back a quarter century, and that not just Virginia, but in every state.

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These rail-cars run every few minutes, and the fares are very low.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

There we were told that we could take rail-cars to Baltimore, and thence to Washington; but there was also a two-horse hack ready to start for Washington direct.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

How little do people who ride along in their carriages, or rattle over the ground in stage-coaches, or rush over its surface in rail-cars, know of the pleasures of travelling!

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various

This is what we get by the modern improvement of rail-cars over a gentleman's carriage, with select and elect friends, and leisure to look at a beautiful country!

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

Francisco and the Mission Dolores, and his picture gallery made out of the conventional houses, steam-boats, rail-cars, runaway Negroes, and other designs which used to figure in the advertising columns of the newspapers, were all very ingenious and clever.

Initial Studies in American Letters 1886

Derby's proposal for _A New System of English Grammar_, his satirical account of the topographical survey of the two miles of road between San Francisco and the Mission Dolores, and his picture gallery made out of the conventional houses, steam-boats, rail-cars, runaway negroes {565} and other designs which used to figure in the advertising columns of the newspapers, were all very ingenious and clever.

Brief History of English and American Literature 1886

On advancing, with our lamps we found the passage closed by a door, in order to give a different direction to the currents of air for the purpose of ventilation; yet this door must be opened occasionally to let the rail-cars pass, loaded with coal.

Narratives of Colored Americans, 1875

There he sat, on a seat cut in the coal, from sunrise to sunset, day after day; his sole business being to open and shut the door when he heard the rail-cars approaching.

Narratives of Colored Americans, 1875

These rail-cars run every few minutes, and the fares are very low.

The Englishwoman in America 1867