accommodation train
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of accommodation train
An Americanism dating back to 1830–40
Example Sentences
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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
Perhaps; but she came in on the accommodation train after the New York train was due to leave.
From Midnight by Cohen, Octavus Roy
The freight-cars on the accommodation train jostled and rocked about and heaved up laterally till they resembled a long line of awkward, frightened, galloping buffaloes.
From Other Main-Travelled Roads by Garland, Hamlin
In brief, he is just the average well-to-do but untravelled citizen that you might meet on an accommodation train between Logansport and Kokomo, Indiana.
From The Man from Home by White, Luther S.
An accommodation train eventually deposited him in Poughkeepsie, where he purchased a cap and a sturdy walking stick.
From The Drums of Jeopardy by MacGrath, Harold
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