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Baggage car   /bˈægədʒ kɑr/   Listen
Baggage car

noun
1.
A railway car where passengers' bags are carried.  Synonym: luggage van.






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"Baggage car" Quotes from Famous Books



... out into the black night. When the official came to ask the passengers where they were going, I heard her tell him that she was a Canadian, and she had been "down in the States with Annie, and now she was bringing Annie home," and as she said this she pointed significantly ahead to the baggage car. ...
— The Black Creek Stopping-House • Nellie McClung

... apprehension I read the details. Apparently the express that left Providence at four o'clock on Saturday afternoon had crashed into an open siding near Willdon about six o'clock, and collided with a string of freight empties. The baggage car had been demolished and the smoker had turned over and gone down an embankment. There were ten men killed... my head swam. Was that the train the Professor had taken? Let me see. He left Woodbridge on a local train at three. He had said the day before that the express left Port ...
— Parnassus on Wheels • Christopher Morley

... took the seven-o'clock for points south. He did not know where he was going, but expected to pick up information on that question en route. His method of reaching for it was to take a seat on a trunk in the baggage car. ...
— Scattergood Baines • Clarence Budington Kelland

... The baggage car and tender had fallen in such a way that the trucks rested upright on the ice, and the position of the timbers was relatively that of the train before it had left the track. One day-coach lay upon its side, but ...
— Robert Hardy's Seven Days - A Dream and Its Consequences • Charles Monroe Sheldon

... fast asleep, who, when awakened, proved to be extremely drunk. I could not dispense with the man; I had to cure him. There was but one chance of doing this. I gave him then and there a severe beating. A fatigue party of Carbineers pitched my kit into the baggage car, and threw John in after it. Next day he was sore, but penitent. There was no need to send him to Dwight, even if that establishment had been in the Punjaub instead of in Illinois. John was redeemed without resorting to the chloride of gold cure, and in his case at least, I was quite ...
— The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various


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