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freight train

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noun

a train of freight cars.

Origin of freight train

First recorded in 1835–45

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

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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