freight train

a train of freight cars.

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First recorded in 1835–45

I have been away too long already: there is a freight-train expected, and I must see that the track is clear.
Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, April 1875, Vol. XV., No. 88|Various
He might have been riding on some freight-train which had stopped at Banbridge, and stolen across and entered the vacant house.
The Debtor|Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
It was Sandy Kilday, and he was waiting for the freight-train with the fixed intention of committing suicide.
Sandy|Alice Hegan Rice
Is there often a freight-train waiting here when you come along?
A Prairie Courtship|Harold Bindloss

It is the voice of doom, for presently the 2.19 freight-train will thunder slowly through our end of the town.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880|Various