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On the other hand, because r is a call-by-reference parameter, any
kind of railroad car handed over, including a box car, is visible in full.
In particular, the virtual member function, short_name, which is
defined in all the subclasses of the railroad_car class, returns the
appropriate short name, be it box, tnk, eng, or
cab.