detrain
verb (used without object)
to alight from a railway train; arrive by train.
detrained
Example Sentences
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I wonder what my ancestor from Scotland thought when he detrained at Los Angeles in the 1880s to take ownership of a farm in the San Fernando Valley nearby.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2017
Mr. Del Gatto maneuvered the Jeep into an elevator; the Waldorf has one big enough, just as it has an all-but-secret railroad platform where President Franklin Delano Roosevelt detrained in 1944.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2015
At midnight the presidential special set out from Worcester again and next morning the Roosevelts detrained at their home, Hyde Park.
From Time Magazine Archive
Late Saturday afternoon he and Mrs. Roosevelt entrained at Washington, detrained at Philadelphia, drove into Franklin Field a few blocks from the convention hall.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two days by rail, via Amiens, Versailles, Bar-le-Duc, and Nancy, and we detrained on June 11th at Thaon, in the Vosges.
From Company B, 307th Infantry Its history, honor roll, company roster, Sept., 1917, May, 1919 by Julius Klausner
