How To Use Flatcar In A Sentence
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For the next six weeks there was scarcely an asset of the Southern Pacific that Cory did not conscript to close the breach with a massive rock dam—1,200 miles of track, three thousand flatcars, and an army of workers.
Colossus
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The cages were stacked two high and two across on a flatcar with rollers.
THE ASSOCIATE
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He shows how intermodal traffic (truck trailers and containers on flatcars) and transportation control systems formed the technological bases of the revolution.
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From these it was hoped that the flatcars could dump rock into the river faster than the current could wash it away—the exact same method that would be used to seal off the river for construction of a great dam nearly thirty years later.
Colossus
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I later learn the Friends of the Bodie Railway & Lumber Company have found and restored one of the old flatcars, now displayed at June Lake.
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Its owner, the Brooklyn, Flatbush and Coney Island Railroad, jacked the thing up and hauled it inland in one piece, using six locomotives, 112 flatcars, and twenty-four specially laid tracks.
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The cages were stacked two high and two across on a flatcar with rollers.
THE ASSOCIATE
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It used mules to haul two ore cars and a flatcar one and a half miles between its mill at the foot of the mountains and its mine.
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The cages were stacked two high and two across on a flatcar with rollers.
THE ASSOCIATE
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The plantation-style tree farm, founded in 1955, started moving truck trailers loaded with trees on railroad flatcars in 1988.
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To haul the snow away, they used steam shovels, cranes, and railway flatcars to get the snow off the streets and dumped into the rivers.
Snow removal in the United States
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He thinks of jefes politicos, rurales, the strike, the lockout, hunger, General Rosalio Martinez, the soldiers of Porfirio Diaz and their death-spitting rifles, of flatcars of bodies consigned to Vera Cruz as shark-food, his father and mother among them.
“Have you lived? What have you got to show for it?”
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It was a huge railway mortar, a flatcar with a giant gun on it.
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By the end of the century, the railroad yards at Houston each ginning season were clogged with long lines of boxcars and flatcars stacked high with bales of cotton.
THE AMERICAN WEST
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Depending on their design, flatcars can accommodate containers that are placed singly or stacked two high.
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The canvas had slipped off onto the flatcar revealing a cannon.
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Incoming ships landed outside, and were then hauled in on flatcars.
Here There Are Monsters
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There even was a couple of Bombardier passenger train cars, between a boxcar and a flatcar, for use in St. Louis' new commuter rail system, not to be confused with its light rail system.
