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Definition of Baggage car
1. Noun. A railway car where passengers' bags are carried.
Generic synonyms: Car, Railcar, Railroad Car, Railway Car
Group relationships: Passenger Train
Lexicographical Neighbors of Baggage Car
Literary usage of Baggage car
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"It had a baggage car attached to it and a baggage-master la charge of said car,
whose duty it wns to ... There was ample room in said baggage car for ..."
2. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1909)
"The train consisted of the engine, followed by a mail car, baggage car, ...
The baggage car, therefore, was some distance ahead of any passenger car, ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Railroads: Containing a Consideration of the ...by Byron Kosciusko Elliott, William Frederick Elliott by Byron Kosciusko Elliott, William Frederick Elliott (1922)
"Railroad companies generally, if not universally, provide in their rules and
regulations that passengers shall not ride in the baggage car, and such a rule ..."
4. The Science of Railways by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (1907)
"The baggage car is not only a receptacle for baggage, but the refuge of ...
I never find myself in a baggage car without becoming interested in its affairs. ..."
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