Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈweɪˌkɑːr/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Waycar is a noun meaning 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.
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 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.
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.
Waycar 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.
The waycar is the rear car on the train. It is generally called a caboose.
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