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Freight train   /freɪt treɪn/   Listen
Freight train

noun
1.
A railroad train consisting of freight cars.  Synonym: rattler.






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"Freight train" Quotes from Famous Books



... defence was that he must not be taken from school. School forsooth! He was way ahead of his class. If he got behind he could make it up. I talked and argued. Once he lost his temper, a rare thing with him, and said he would run away from school, ride on a freight train to Flagstaff, steal a horse and track me to my camp. I could not say very much in reply to this threat, because I remembered that I had made worse to my father, and carried it out. I had to talk sense to Romer. Often we ...
— Tales of lonely trails • Zane Grey

... Central Railroad he had always a special car, sometimes a special train. Frequently he swept by Lincoln, side-tracked in an accommodation or freight train. "The gentleman in that car evidently smelt no royalty on our carriage," laughed Lincoln one day, as he watched from the caboose of a laid-up freight train the decorated ...
— Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday • Various



Words linked to "Freight train" :   cabin car, freight liner, liner train, caboose, train, railroad train, freight car



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