railcarful

plural railcarfuls

1. rareThe amount that will fit in a railcar.

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   During the last year of the USSR existence the central ministries were no longer able to guarantee supply of food and other consumer goods to northern areas of the country. And this compelled Komi (like all other areas) to resort to barter deals—one railcarful of meat against 30 railcarfuls of lumber.

   1994, George N. Vachnadze, Russia's Hotbeds of Tension, Nova Science Publishers, →ISBN, page 94

   Cut to: Trudy Smith (King) — known as Ghastly Gertrude or Treacherous Trudy depending on who you ask — on a horse on the tracks and the train has no choice but to stop and not splatter her. All part of the plan, of course. But this is no robbery. Past some passengers and a railcarful of shithead Confederate Blues is Rufus’ cage, and now he’s a free man.

   2021 November 3, John Serba, “Stream It Or Skip It: ‘The Harder They Fall’ on Netflix, a Spirited Neo-Western Starring a Fired-Up Jonathan Majors”, in Decider