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/ˈweɪˌkɑːr/ · noun
A crewed railroad car attached to the end of a freight train, serving as the conductor’s office, lookout (often via a cupola), and living quarters—equivalent to a caboose. Used chiefly in North America, historically..
The question certainly has two sides, some able managers thinking that keeping the locomotives circulating round without attaching any set practice of making a conductor, engineer, fireman and two brakemen follow a certain waycar and all keep together, taking out any engine which may be available for the run.
The waycar is the rear car on the train. It is generally called a caboose.
Crewmembers left their winter clothes in the waycar, another name for the caboose, hitched 56 cars behind the engine.
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Way car means A crewed railroad car attached to the end of a freight train, serving as the conductor’s office, lookout (often via a cupola), and living quarters—equivalent to a caboose. Used chiefly in North America, historically..
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The question certainly has two sides, some able managers thinking that keeping the locomotives circulating round without attaching any set practice of making a conductor, engineer, fireman and two brakemen follow a certain waycar and all keep together, taking out any engine which may be available for the run.
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