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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a self-unloading gondola railway car; also, in mining, a smaller car made to drop its load by levers or by tipping.
Quotations
1912
As the train was a mixed passenger and freight, we were constantly stopping at various places to take on or put off "flat-cars" full of gravel, or "dump-cars" full of "dirt" deposited there by the steam shovel, trucks loaded with rails or ties, "box-cars" full of provisions, coal or lumber.
1956
They were using a 1½-ton Manchu battery-operated electric trammer with five 1-ton end dump cars.