Examples from literature

• A line of freight cars, two miles in length, stood upon the railway. 
• For the freight cars of that day, ten tons made a load, and with the light locomotives and iron rails then in use, twenty or thirty cars made a full train. 
• He found a pile of old bagging in one end of the freight car and sat down to rest. 
• The coach in which Henry sat was attached to the end of a long string of freight cars. 
• The three of them walked down the tracks where the freight cars had stood before being hauled away.