page_title: Passenger car (rail)
section_title: Combine
hierarchical_section_title: Passenger car (rail) / Car types / Specialized types / Combine
caption_attribution_description: English: A coach-baggage combine on display at the Mid-Continent Railway Museum in North Freedom. Photo by Sean Lamb (User:Slambo), October 10 2004.
context_page_description: A passenger car is a piece of railway rolling stock that is designed to carry passengers. The term passenger car can also be associated with a sleeping car, baggage, dining, railway post office and prisoner transport cars.
  In some countries, such as the UK, some coaching stock to not carry passengers are referred to as "NPCS"; similarly some maintenance stock can be known as "MOW" – maintenance of way – in the US.
context_section_description: A combine is a car that combines features of a head-end and a regular passenger car.  The most common combination is that of a coach and a baggage car, but the combination of coach and post office car was also common.  Combines were used most frequently on branch lines and short line railroads where there wasn't necessarily enough traffic to economically justify single-purpose cars.  As lightweight cars began to appear on railroads, passenger cars more frequently combined features of two or more car types on one car, and the classic heavyweight combine fell out of use.
caption: A coach-baggage combine
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