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 Wayside Courtships by Garland, Hamlin
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.]
"Marguerite is too proud," murmured Jennie, as she sought her own room on returning from seeing her fair cousin aboard the down accommodation train which was to carry her homewards.
From Marguerite Verne by Armour, Rebecca Agatha
My "arriving" was always in an accommodation train fifty minutes late.
From A Daughter of the Middle Border by Garland, Hamlin
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