thirty-car

Updated: January 17, 2026

Why, kid, it's always like this, day an' night Sundays an' week-days. See that thirty-car freight slidin' in four, no, five tracks off? She's all mixed freight, sent here to be sorted out into straight trains. That's why we're cuttin' out the cars one by one."

Rudyard Kipling - The Day's Work - Volume 1