Definition of "railway car" [railway car]

• A large, heavy vehicle with flanged wheels fitted for running on a railway. (noun)

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• "“After breakfast, on Tuesday, July 12,” says Mr. Neill, “I went as usual in a railway car to the city, and before noon my house was surrounded by General Bradley Johnson's insurgent cavalry, who had made an attempt to capture the New York express train, and had robbed the country store near by of its contents."