Combining Autoracks and Passenger Cars
A rail transport service where passengers can take their automobile along with them on their journey is known as a "Motorail" in Europe and as a "Auto Train" in North America. Passengers are carried in normal passenger cars or in sleeping cars on longer journeys, while their vehicles are loaded into autoracks, car carriers, or flatcars.
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Famous quotes containing the words combining, passenger and/or cars:
“Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.”
—Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)
“Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)
“Cuchulain stirred,
Stared on the horses of the sea, and heard
The cars of battle and his own name cried;
And fought with the invulnerable tide.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)