parlor car
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Or is it the soft, steady voice of the stranger in the train’s parlor car, telling a story to the boy’s father?
From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2015
The classroom is a converted parlor car, and the students are commuters in one of two new programs to let businessmen take courses as they ride to and from New York City.
From Time Magazine Archive
The secret, if it proves as workable as its inventors hope, is the mobile lounge�a fat-tired monster that rolls regally over the landing strip like a parlor car on stilts.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ordinary traveler pays $4.38 to make the round trip in a parlor car between Washington and Baltimore.
From Time Magazine Archive
They came up, hand in hand, from the other side of the Wabash tracks and scrambled aboard the open platform at the back of the parlor car.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
