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How to use boxcars in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word boxcars? Here are some examples.

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Because of different rail gauges, sometimes freight had to be unloaded and then reloaded on boxcars.
A rail system can reroute traffic around destroyed tracks, repair sections of damaged rail, or even transfer freight from boxcars to trucks.
Originally the railroad moved the trees in boxcars to Los Angeles where they were spotted for unloading by a wide variety of vendors.
Three engines and 11 boxcars derailed near the 3800 block of Croton Avenue.
The two boxcars with machine turrets and the open artillery boxcar began to open fire.
All of these images are from the sides of boxcars, coal cars, miscellaneous freight cars and a caboose.
I wondered if he thought he was going to die, or be herded onto the boxcars to die later in the gas chambers, or if he knew he would persevere.
Even in postwar America, nostalgia and wanderlust kept tramp wannabes hopping boxcars.
He invented an alternative biography about working-class roots, an upbringing in New Mexico and hopping boxcars across the country.
When I was a kid straight out of high school, I went to work for a large supply house unloading trucks and boxcars.
The TLC will handle lumber, steel, aluminum and food products, and is designed to load and unload all types of railcars from centerbeams to boxcars and gondolas.
Many agricultural workers continue to live the equivalent of an old-South sharecropper existence in tarpaper shacks, plywood shanties and wooden boxcars with no running water.
Cohen includes a category of songs about hoboes, tramps, vagabonds, etc. who populated the boxcars and rail-yards in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century.
The prisoners were confined in the boxcars for days or even weeks, with little or no food or water.
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains lies a happy hobo land where the boxcars are all empty, where there are cigaret trees and rock-and-rye springs and the whangdoodle sings.
From model open boxcars, to improved structure roofs, to renumbered locomotives, to model weed-grown tracks, these projects will enhance any model train layout.
Examples from Classical Literature
One day all of us who were able to walk were made to fall in and march over to the railroad, where we were loaded into boxcars.
A heavy frost developed that night and the troops almost froze in the boxcars.
Bunny and Sue crossed the street and walked along the string of boxcars, looking into those the doors of which were open.
A figure was running along the top of the boxcars toward the engine, looking frantically over his shoulder every few minutes.
The company, which controls the railroad spur, also has control too over the boxcars that are on the track.
When I meant trainloads, they were in coaches not boxcars like ours were treated.
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