goods engine

American  

noun

British.

1. a railway locomotive used to haul a freight train.

---

Example Sentences

One noteworthy exception occurs, however, on the Great Eastern Railway, where a type of goods engine with a pony truck in front has been introduced.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 by Various

Similarly, the express engine must have large driving-wheels, the goods engine small driving-wheels, to perform their special functions properly.

From How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Williams, Archibald

In vain the driver of the goods engine repeated the warnings and actions of the passenger engine.

From The Iron Horse by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)