Car-builder's dictionary; an illustrated vocabulary of terms which designate American railroad cars, their parts, attachments & details of construction;
Car-builder's Dictionary, compiled by J. C. Wait for the Master Car Builders' Association and published in New York by the Railroad Gazette in 1898, is a glossary of American railroad car terminology for car builders and railway engineers. Its pictures are technical working drawings of car framing, plans and elevations, and a close view of a coupler and drawbar hardware, which a designer might use for mechanical line work and a precise, schematic diagram style.
