car

Any vehicle adapted to the rails of a railroad or railway, including freight cars, passenger cars, locomotives, construction cars, terminal cars, hand cars, and street cars. 44 Am J1st RR § 272. The Federal Safety Appliance Act (45 USC § 11) requiring "all cars" to be equipped with efficient hand brakes uses the term in its generic sense to mean all kinds of cars running on the rails and applies to a track motorcar used by railroad maintenance employees, even though such car is not attached to a train or used as a part of a train movement. Martin v Johnston (Fla) 79 So 2d 419, 49 ALR2d 1297. In modern times, the word "car" is correctly and most frequently used for "automobile." So used, it is a generic term embracing a number of different types of vehicles with certain basic similarities. 29A Am J Rev ed Ins § 1239. See cars.