freight train

Historical Examples

• We expected to travel on a freight-train that was due in Galesburg about nine o'clock.

  Tramping with Tramps

  Josiah Flynt

• Is there often a freight-train waiting here when you come along?

  A Prairie Courtship

  Harold Bindloss

• He promised he would let me know if he sent a freight-train to the Rocky Mountains.

  Pictures of Canadian Life

  J. Ewing Ritchie

• Just then Mr. Harvey offered him a good salary to take charge of his freight-train.

  Foes in Ambush

  Charles King

• 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