freight engine

noun

1. a locomotive for pulling freight trains, designed for high drawbar pull rather than high speed.

Word History and Origins

Origin of freight engine¹

An Americanism dating back to 1860–65

Example Sentences

During a recent visit to the Rusk depot, one of its rare wheeled residents - a massive 1953 locomotive freight engine - was hard at work moving freight.

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During a recent visit to the Rusk depot, one of its rare wheeled residents — a massive 1953 locomotive freight engine — was hard at work moving freight.

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The locomotive he now propelled was a third-class freight engine, and had no fireman on the present occasion so far as could be seen.

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Brockman put the freight engine crew on the rack, and they say there was a small boulder on the track—that it rolled down the canyon slope just ahead of them as they were turning a curve.

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February 14, at 8:20 p.m., one mile north of Indianapolis, Ohio division, extra freight engine, Packard conductor, collided with Ohio division passenger train No. 11.

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