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
Still, Levi managed to get the crew of an accommodation train interested in the boys, whom he had driven across the river on a light wagon, lying on his spring mattress.
From Si Klegg, Book 5 (of 6) The Deacon's Adventures At Chattanooga In Caring For The Boys by John McElroy
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
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 Hamlin Garland
My "arriving" was always in an accommodation train fifty minutes late.
From A Daughter of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland
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