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Effectively a boxcar without the wheels and chassis, a container is designed to be amenable to intermodal freight transport, whether by container ships, trucks or flatcars, and can be delivered door-to-door. [citation needed] Boxcars were used for bulk commodities such as coal, particularly in the Midwestern United States in the early 20th ...
The Boxcar Children is a children's book series originally created and written by the American first-grade school teacher [1] Gertrude Chandler Warner and currently published by Penguin Random House. It was previously published through Albert, Whitman and Company until 2023.
The Mystery of the Stolen Boxcar: 1995 50 The Mystery in the Cave: 1996 51 The Mystery on the Train: 1996 52 The Mystery of the Lost Mine: 1996 53 The Guide Dog Mystery: 1996 54 The Hurricane Mystery: 1996 55 The Mystery of the Secret Message: 1996 56 The Firehouse Mystery: 1997 57 The Mystery in San Francisco: 1997 58 The Mystery at the Alamo ...
Lecil Travis Martin (September 1, 1931 – April 12, 1999), whose stage name was Boxcar Willie, was an American country music singer-songwriter, who sang in the "old-time hobo" music style, complete with overalls, and a floppy hat. [2] "Boxcar Willie" was originally a character in a ballad he wrote, but he later adopted it as his own stage name ...
Boxcar at the museum in 2018. On July 3, 2004, the Gertrude Chandler Warner Boxcar Children Museum opened in Putnam, Connecticut. It is located across the street from Warner's childhood home and is housed in an authentic 1920s New Haven R.R. boxcar.
Boxcar Bertha is a 1972 American romantic crime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and produced by Roger Corman, from a screenplay by Joyce H. Corrington and John William Corrington. [2] Made on a low budget , the film is a loose adaptation of Sister of the Road , a pseudo-autobiographical account of the fictional character Bertha Thompson ...
Merci Train presentation ceremony in the Fourteenth Street yards opposite the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Washington, D.C. in 1949. [3]The boxcars were "forty-and-eights" used during both world wars.
Forty-and-Eight boxcars (French: Quarante et huit), commonly referred to as Forty-and-Eights, were types of French boxcars (voiture) used by the French Army and Wehrmacht. ...