Mail Car

Definition: Mail Car

Mail Car

Noun

1. A railway car in which mail is transported and sorted.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Vehicle

Train; accommodation train, passenger train, express trail, special train, corridor train, parliamentary train, luggage train, freight train, goods train; st class train, nd class train, rd class train, st class carriage, nd class carriage, rd class carriage, st class compartment, nd class compartment, rd class compartment; rolling stock; horse box, cattle truck; baggage car, express car, freight car, parlor car, dining car, Pullman car, sleeping car, sleeper, dome car; surface car, tram car, trolley car; box car, box wagon; horse car; bullet train, shinkansen, cannonball, the Wabash cannonball, lightning express; luggage van; mail, mail car, mail van.

Two men working in railway mail car. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Albanian

vagon postar. (various references)

Bulgarian 

пощенска кола (mail cart, stagecoach), пощенски фургон (mail coach). (various references)

Czech

poštovní vùz (mail cart, mail coach). (various references)

Danish

postvogn (mail van, post office coach). (various references)

Dutch

postrijtuig (mail van, post office coach). (various references)

French

wagon-poste (mail coach), voiture postale (mail van). (various references)

German

Postwagen (mail storage car, mail van, post office coach, postal truck, postal van, stowage van). (various references)

Greek 

ταχυδρομικό όχημα (mail storage car, mail van, post office coach, postal truck, postal van, stowage van). (various references)

Hungarian

postakocsi (coach, diligence, drag, mail cart, mail coach, post, post chaise, post-coach, postilion, postillion, stage-coach). (various references)

Italian

carrozza postale (mail van, post office coach). (various references)

Pig Latin

ailmay arcay

Portuguese

vagão postal (mail van, post office coach), ambulância postal (mail van, post office coach). (various references)

Russian 

почтовый вагон (mail-car). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

poštanski vagon. (various references)

Spanish

vagón correo, furgón postal (mail van), coche de correos (mail van, post office coach). (various references)

Swedish

postvagn. (various references)

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