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
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 Hamlin Garland
Of some interest to many is the 7:32 A.M. accommodation train on the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad from Ashland to Richmond.
From Life Gleanings by T. J. Macon
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 Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell
On the mainland she caught an accommodation train which wound a halting way through the morning and set her down in Providence late in the forenoon.
From Nobody by W. L. Jacobs
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