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    A passenger railroad car or passenger car (American English), also called a passenger carriage, passenger coach (British English and International Union...
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    A private railroad car, private railway coach, private car, or private varnish is a railroad passenger car either originally built or later converted for...
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    A dome car is a type of railway passenger car that has a glass dome on the top of the car where passengers can ride and see in all directions around the...
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  • refer to: Passenger car (Ferris wheel), a compartment for carrying passengers Passenger railroad car, railway rolling stock for carrying passengers Search...
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    A passenger train is a train used to transport people along a railroad line. These trains may consist of unpowered passenger railroad cars (also known...
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    National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak (/ˈæmtræk/; reporting marks AMTK, AMTZ), is the national passenger railroad company of...
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    to match the cars' new capacities. The average passenger car couldn't get any wider or longer due to side clearances along the railroad lines, but they...
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    An observation car/carriage/coach (in US English, often abbreviated to simply observation or obs) is a type of railroad passenger car, generally operated...
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    train car, train wagon, train carriage or train truck, is a vehicle used for the carrying of cargo or passengers on a rail transport network (a railroad/railway)...
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    Women-only passenger cars are railway or subway cars intended for women only. They are a result of sexual segregation in some societies, but also can...
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    A dining car (American English) or a restaurant car (English), also a diner, is a railroad passenger car that serves meals in the manner of a full-service...
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    first-class passengers in 1838. In the spring of 1839, the Cumberland Valley Railroad pioneered sleeping car service in the United States with a car named "Chambersburg"...
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    A buffet car or café car is a passenger railroad car, where food and beverages can be bought at a counter. They provide a lower level of service than...
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    combine car in North American parlance, most often referred to simply as a combine, is a type of railroad car which combines sections for both passengers and...
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    post office, commonly abbreviated as RPO, was a railroad car that was normally operated in passenger service and used specifically for staff to sort mail...
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    Troop sleeper (redirect from Kitchen car)
    In United States railroad terminology, a troop sleeper was a railroad passenger car which had been constructed to serve as something of a mobile barracks...
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    structure made to resemble a passenger railroad car. Steam dummies had some popularity in the first decades of railroading in the U.S., from the 1830s...
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    Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain Railroad (H&BTM) (reporting mark HBTM) is a former short line railroad company operating passenger and freight service on standard...
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  • The streamliner cars are a class of streamlined passenger railroad cars built from the 1930s through the 1960s for long distance passenger train services...
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  • Auto Train CityNightLine Sleeping car Hard sleeper White, John H. (1985) [1978]. The American Railroad Passenger Car. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins...
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    Shawmut & Northern Railroad (reporting mark PSN) also known as the Shawmut Line, was a Class I railroad company operating passenger and freight service...
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  • 1910, the railroad began operating a direct current (DC) 650-volt system whose third-rail powered Pennsy locomotives (and LIRR passenger cars) used to...
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  • concession). Lounge cars operated by Pullman were exclusively for the use of sleeping car passengers, while those operated by the railroad were available to...
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    Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The cars were primarily adopted for passenger service in rural areas with low traffic density or in...
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    Handcar (redirect from Manual railroad car)
    trolley, pump car, rail push trolley, push-trolley, jigger, Kalamazoo, velocipede, or draisine) is a railroad car powered by its passengers, or by people...
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  • Minute Man (category Passenger trains of the Boston and Maine Railroad)
    Man was a passenger train operated by the Boston and Maine Railroad between Boston, Massachusetts, and Troy, New York. It was the railroad's flagship train...
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  • Train seat (category Passenger railroad cars)
    A train seat is a seat used in a passenger train's passenger railroad car allowing passengers to sit during their travels. A train seat design has a seat...
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  • A dome car is a type of railway passenger car that has a glass dome on the top of the car where passengers can ride and see in all directions around the...
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    Boxcar (redirect from Box car)
    Refrigerator car – Railroad car designed to carry perishable freight at specific temperatures Stock car Troop sleeper – Type of military railroad passenger car An...
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    35 "Astra Dome" dome cars to the Union Pacific Railroad. January 1961: ACF delivers its last passenger car, (NYCT IRT R28. IRT car), Berwick plant closed...
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