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

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accommodation train

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 Garland, Hamlin

We are sorry to learn that the directors have established an accommodation train for Sunday morning between this city and Poughkeepsie, in addition to the mail train to Albany.

From Children of the Market Place by Masters, Edgar Lee

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.]

When the six o’clock accommodation train pulled out from Boston that night it bore a little old man and a little old woman, gray-haired, weary, but blissfully content.

From Across the Years by Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman)