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Railroad train

noun

Public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive. Synonym: train.

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"Railroad train" Quotes from Famous Books

... earth and work its destruction, which he anticipated. I remember very well my reflections on leaving that meeting. A few days before I had stood upon the side of a hill near the track, and had seen for the first time a railroad train on its way from Boston to Worcester. I said to myself: "Now we have railroads, steamboats, friction matches, temperance societies, Sunday-schools, the Bible translated into various languages, which but a few years ...

— Personal Experience of a Physician • John Ellis

... shooting through space so fast, and because you can see no stationary objects with which to make a comparison, as when you are traveling on a railroad train," continued the German. "And, as we are not dependent on tracks, or roads, with their unevenness, there is no motion to our projectile, save that of moving through space. That is why it seems as ...

— Through Space to Mars • Roy Rockwood

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