Word: flatcar
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From a distance, the big A-cannon assembly looks like a loaded railroad flatcar, with engine cabs at both ends. When it is ready to leave the road to go into action, the two cabs rev up to a deafening roar and swivel around to push the flatcar sideways (see cut) across the terrain to firing position. Once in position, the cabs help lower the gun bed to the ground and then pull out from under...
...cross over on the ferry from Hälsingborg, got bogged down when a French gendarme sent them on a 30-kilometer detour. The Palermo starters, who ran into the toughest driving of all, had to ferry across the Strait of Messina and take a railroad flatcar ride through the Simplon Tunnel. They also hit fog at Florence and sleet at Milan. Though the Italians got a special dispensation to exceed the rally's maximum 65-kilometer-per-hour average speed (because of time lost at the Simplon Tunnel), they still had trouble with blinding snow along the French...
...flag-decked railroad train chugged out of Piermont, N.Y. on May 14, 1851, old Daniel Webster settled down in a rocking chair in the middle of a flatcar, a jug of hard cider close at hand, "to enjoy the fine country." Along with U.S. President Millard Fillmore and 298 others, Webster was making the inaugural run over the New York & Erie's 446-mile track to Dunkirk, N.Y., on Lake Erie, thus linking the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean for the first time. To Daniel Webster, the Erie was a "great work...
...feeding ducks across a lake, and when the ducks ventured close to the farther shore, they were pounced upon by a teammate hidden in the underbrush. Coyotes will hide in a herd of cattle to destroy their scent, or even take refuge in a wagon or a moving flatcar...
...Stairs and built wholly of native white oak, pine and spruce, worked up to eight knots in a brisk breeze. Said Stairs:"She's fast, staunch, sound-a darned good sea boat. I'd take her around the world tomorrow." Instead, he loaded her on a flatcar last week for delivery to a California buyer...