accommodation train

American  

noun

1. Railroads Now Rare. a local train.

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Etymology

Origin of accommodation train

An Americanism dating back to 1830–40

Example Sentences

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accommodation train

He met a man named Durham who was a gambler and decent and who in his spare moments punched tickets on the Under- ground Railway, the Negroes' accommodation train.

From Time Magazine Archive

And without a single word on either side they journeyed in the poking, no-sooner-well-started-than-stopping accommodation train southbound.

From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by Phillips, David Graham

That this idea was not taken seriously by either was shown by the double-quick at which they went down the line, and over the half-laid tracks to where the accommodation train was standing.

From Lost in the Air by Snell, Roy J. (Roy Judson)

Tom turned from the electric locomotive to see Ned staring across the tracks at a man who was talking to several of the train crew of the side-swiped accommodation train.

From Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]

Ward displayed the like quality amusingly in his remark to the conductor of a tediously slow-moving accommodation train in the South.

From Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers by Anonymous