coal car


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Noun1.coal car - freight car with fixed sides and no roofcoal car - freight car with fixed sides and no roof; for transporting coal
freight car - a railway car that carries freight
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Shortly after noon, embers from a wall lantern dropped below into a coal car filled with hay for the mules that actually lived in the mine where they worked.
It has an engine, flat bed, coal car, box car and the caboose.
"Coal Car #1" (Figure 4) is a train car that addresses the issue of hydraulic fracturing, a highly controversial technique of drilling and extracting oil and natural gas at high pressure that has hugely negative environmental, health, and safety consequences.
By the time he escaped to the US in the early 1920s, he had 'black lung' and lost a kidney after being crushed by a coal car.
Through Parks Canada s Cost-Sharing Program, the Government of Canada will contribute up to $110,000 to support conservation work on the mine entry, blacksmith shop and rotary coal car dump at Atlas No.
It is believed the victim was dumped into the coal car after suffering two lacerations to the head.
The coal car tender of a steam locomotive derailed at slow speed as it approached Hampton Loade station on Monday afternoon, according to SVR.
It consists of a locomotive, coal car, passenger car, freight car and cattle car.
We would board at a railroad water stop on the outskirts of Vincennes, and when the opportunity presented itself, fill our sacks from the coal car. When the wain passed near our home, which was always some shack on the tracks, we tossed our coal sack off and just jumped.
I hear there are plans for a coal car, a gondola and maybe even a caboose, which means plenty of work to complete for future FCCTC students!
Peter was excited as he rode the coal car deep into the mine.
When my father came to, he found himself wedged between a derailed coal car and the shaft's hard rock wall.