freight train
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of freight train
First recorded in 1835–45
Example Sentences
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A line outside a Riverside gas station crossed a railroad track, and a man stopped on the tracks refused to yield his place even when a freight train engine bore down on him.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026
The February 2023 rail disaster in Tempi, central Greece killed 57 people, most of them young students on a passenger train that collided with a freight train in the middle of the night.
From Barron's • Jan. 10, 2026
But when a freight train stalled at a key intersection in the middle of the city, they found themselves stuck on the wrong side of the street for nearly 30 minutes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 20, 2025
I don’t want to step in front of a freight train and play mean reversion at the same time that something’s exploding.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 17, 2025
A moment later, a freight train thundered past on the other side of the broken fence that separated the tracks from this junkyard.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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