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

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

Only one remark did Kennedy make as we settled ourselves for the long ride in the accommodation train to the city.

From The Dream Doctor by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)

Butman implored him not to leave him at the way-station, fearing that the crowd would come down in an accommodation train, which went also about that time, and waylay him there.

From Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by Hoar, George Frisbie

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.]

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.