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Definition of Car train
1. Noun. A train that transports passengers and their automobiles.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Car Train
Literary usage of Car train
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1905)
"According to curve E, a five-car train on a down grade was accelerated at a rate
far below the best performance and even the three-car train with locomotive ..."
2. Electric Railway Engineering by Horace Field Parshall, Henry Metcalf Hobart (1907)
"and running with an eight-car train weighing metric tons and a four-car train
... The maximum speed reached was G3 miles per hour with an eight-car train, ..."
3. Annotated Cases, American and English by H Noyes Greene, William Mark McKinney, David Shephard Garland (1918)
"... passengers in the event of failure to make such an attempt at the particular [474]
time. The fear that the street car train might not reach its destina- ..."
4. The Economic Theory of the Location of Railways: An Analysis of the by Arthur Mellen Wellington (1914)
"An empty-car train will have about twice the length of a loaded train ... A 35-
or 40-car train will be, say, 1200 ft. long, and this may not unreasonably ..."
5. The Oxford Medicine by Henry Asbury Christian, James Mackenzie (1920)
"CAR (TRAIN) SICKNESS Car sickness has the same general causes as sea sickness.
It is likely that centripetal more often than central factors are operative ..."
6. Economic Legislation of All the States: The Law of Incorporated Companies by Allen Ripley Foote (1893)
"It shall be unlawful for the engineer, driver, conductor, or person in charge of
any street car, train of street cars, grip car, or dummy propelled by means ..."
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