A railway freight-car.
1862. I made my bed on the top of a box car, and with one blanket slept soundly and sweetly, although the rain fell in heavy showers.—‘Southern Hist. Soc. Papers,’ xi. 299 (Richmond, 1883).
1884. A freight train was about to start. As it moved off I climbed up between two box-cars, and the next morning was in Chicago.—Id., xii. 398.
1910. The Railway Commission of Canada, after a hearing, has decided not to recommend the running of freight trains without brakemen on the tops of the box cars. There was a demand that such a recommendation be made in order to make practicable the building of overhead bridges at a lower elevation, and thus in some cases reduce the cost of putting in such bridges where needed for the abolition of level crossings.—Indianapolis News, April.
