sleeping car

Noun

sleeping car (plural sleeping cars)

1. A railroad car with sleeping facilities for passengers travelling overnight.
   • In August 1859, eighty years ago, a sleeping car appeared on the Chicago & Alton Railroad of the United States, a great advance on the primitive facilities previously available.1939 November, “Pertinent Paragraphs: The Sleeping Car”, in Railway Magazine, page 360
   • 'They'd be melted down into gold bars and channelled straight into the black bullion market. Have to sacrifice the rarity value of the coins, but the gold would go straight underground. As it is, someone's using the negroes - porters, sleeping-car attendants, truck-drivers - and getting the money...1954, Ian Fleming, “Interview with M”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 15