Coal Car

Western Front; of the improvement of our ferocious-looking armored train, with its coal-car mounted naval guns, buttressed with sand bags and preceded by a similar car bristling with machine guns and Lewis automatics in the hands of a motley crew of Polish gunners and Russki gunners and a British sergeant or two. ❋ Harry H. Mead (N/A)

In reality it was a coal-car, bearing in one end a crouching figure and a crutch. ❋ Kirk Monroe (N/A)

Suddenly his eye fell upon an empty coal-car standing on the track at the very edge of the slope, and he cried, ❋ Kirk Monroe (N/A)

But the boys were not so successful as they had hoped to be in boarding the train and were able to get into only an open coal-car. ❋ Mabel Hale (N/A)

Thus, in Parkersburg, West Virginia, the train I was on ran into a coal-car. ❋ Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919 (1929)

He never looked for me again, and I rode that coal-car precisely one thousand and twenty-two miles, sleeping most of the time and getting out at divisions ❋ Unknown (1907)

He never looked for me again, and I rode that coal-car precisely one thousand and twenty-two miles, sleeping most of the time and getting out at divisions (where the freights always stop for an hour or so) to beg my food. ❋ Unknown (1907)

He never looked for me again, and I rode that coal-car precisely one thousand twenty-two miles, sleeping most of the time and getting out at divisions (where freights always stop for an hour or so) to beg my food. ❋ Unknown (1907)

Hugh invented an apparatus for lifting a loaded coal-car off the railroad tracks, carrying it high up into the air and dumping its contents into a chute. ❋ Sherwood Anderson (1908)

He walked to the suburbs, and at nightfall he scrambled up the side of a coal-car in a train slowly moving westward. ❋ Robert Neilson Stephens (1886)

The building of the engine, tender (coal-car), and circus cars is pretty straightforward. ❋ Unknown (2008)

a new coal-car, one of a lot that had been delivered in the mine the day before, and had not yet been used, was drawn up out of the blackness to the mouth of the slope, and stopped in front of them. ❋ Kirk Monroe (N/A)