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 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
While motorists on the single major highway are bumper to bumper, passengers can recline in the velvety Presidential parlor car, built in 1925.
From Time Magazine Archive
Today Branford ranks as the second largest trolley trove in the country, is stocked with 75 cars, ranging from a John Stephenson horsecar, vintage 1893, to a wicker-chaired private parlor car in mint condition.
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
