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What (who) is boxcar - definition
ENCLOSED RAILROAD CAR USED TO CARRY FREIGHT
Boxcars; Box Cars; Box car; Louvre van; Double door boxcar; Double-door boxcar; Box cars; Hicube boxcar
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![A wooden-bodied [[Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway]] boxcar on display at the [[Mid-Continent Railway Museum]] in [[North Freedom, Wisconsin]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Box car DSSA 18052.jpg?width=200 "A wooden-bodied [[Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway]] boxcar on display at the [[Mid-Continent Railway Museum]] in [[North Freedom, Wisconsin]]")
![A double-door boxcar passes through [[Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Box car HLMX 60036 20040808.jpg?width=200 "A double-door boxcar passes through [[Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin]].")
.jpg?width=200 "Illustration of a boxcar being unloaded by hand")
boxcar
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A boxcar is a railway carriage, often without windows, which is used to carry luggage, goods, or mail. (AM; in BRIT, use van
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boxcar
¦ noun N. Amer. an enclosed railway freight wagon.
Boxcar
A boxcar is the North American (AAR) term for a railroad car that is enclosed and generally used to carry freight. The boxcar, while not the simplest freight car design, is considered one of the most versatile since it can carry most loads.
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Boxcar
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A boxcar is the North American (AAR) term for a railroad car that is enclosed and generally used to carry freight. The boxcar, while not the simplest freight car design, is considered one of the most versatile since it can carry most loads. Boxcars have side sliding doors of varying size and operation, and some include end doors and adjustable bulkheads to load very large items.
Similar covered freight cars outside North America are covered goods wagons and, depending on the region, are called goods van (UK and Australia), covered wagon (UIC and UK) or simply van (UIC, UK and Australia).
Examples of use of boxcar
1. The red freight train‘s corrugated boxcar was crushed.
2. Part of the Allied powers‘ wartime agreement with Stalin, Operation Keelhaul took the refugees back east by boxcar.
3. He also was part of the first pro football team to fly to a game on an airplane, a C–11' Flying Boxcar.
4. From the French port where he landed 12 days later, Lupo traveled inland, almost certainly by rail, jammed with other doughboys on a "forty–and–eight," a boxcar built for 40 men or eight horses.
5. In 1'68, the United States exploded beneath the Nevada desert a 1–megaton nuclear device called "Boxcar." In 1'70, the Broadway musical "Company" opened at the Alvin Theatre in New York.