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
Joe Stoker, rear brakeman on the —— accommodation train, was exceedingly popular with all the railroad men.
From Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden
The P. C. & W. built the road and have run an accommodation train back and forth daily ever since.
From Under Handicap A Novel by Jackson Gregory
I want you to send word out to the house at once that Ime comin' home this evenin' on the accommodation train, and bringing the boys.
From Si Klegg, Book 5 (of 6) The Deacon's Adventures At Chattanooga In Caring For The Boys by John McElroy
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 Luther S. White
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