buffer car
buffer car noun: a nonhazardous railroad freight car in a train, typically used to separate locomotives and their crews from freight cars carrying hazardous materials.
Noun
buffer car (plural buffer cars)
- A nonhazardous railroad freight car in a train, typically used to separate locomotives and their crews from freight cars carrying hazardous materials.
- The buffer car not only puts extra space between the crew and the rest of the train, but it also keeps flammable materials away from a potential ignition source.2024, Cody Grivno, “How railroads identify buffer service cars”, in Trains Magazine
- "These requirements have been universally interpreted, by both operators and regulators, to effectively require five buffer cars for manifest trains (when train length permits) and one buffer car for unit trains and when the train length does not permit."2022, Laura Sullivan, Mark Raney, Emilio Paleo, Separation Distance of Hazardous Materials Cars and Train Crews and/or Locomotives - Literature Review (Buffer Car Research Study), United States...
Forms of buffer car
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Words formed from buffer car
Questions about buffer car
- What does buffer car mean?
- Buffer car means a nonhazardous railroad freight car in a train, typically used to separate locomotives and their crews from freight cars carrying hazardous materials.
- What part of speech is buffer car?
- Buffer car is a noun.
- What is the plural of buffer car?
- The plural of buffer car is buffer cars.
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