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Railroad train   /rˈeɪlrˌoʊd treɪn/   Listen
Railroad train

noun
1.
Public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive.  Synonym: train.






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"Railroad train" Quotes from Famous Books



... have tried to say too much. When it is necessary to confine your message to a small space, the attention-sentence, or in some cases the command-sentence, is the part to use. Many signs seen from the rapidly moving window of a street-car or railroad train carry only the name of the product attractively displayed, with a command ...
— Practical English Composition: Book II. - For the Second Year of the High School • Edwin L. Miller

... "One railroad train came out. But it was manned by dead men, I think, because it crashed into the rear masonry of ...
— In Secret • Robert W. Chambers

... at home, Mr. Thomas Conway, President of the Craven County Railroad, has charge of two hundred and fifty dollars belonging to me. I was fortunate enough to save a railroad train from destruction, and this is the money the passengers raised for me. I will give you an order on him for the amount ...
— In A New World - or, Among The Gold Fields Of Australia • Horatio Alger

... just from that that Mr. Crow was something of a tease. All his life he had teased his neighbors. And now he felt more important than ever, because he thought he had found a way to tease a railroad train. ...
— The Tale of Old Mr. Crow • Arthur Scott Bailey

... from my easy couch. There! Fix that cushion so! I am a leisurely, lordly aristocrat. Palette? No, I will just shake my soft beard of fine mist back and forth across the sky, a spectrum for the sunrays. So! so! I see that this worm is a railroad train. Let it curl up in the shadow of a gorge and take a nap. I will wake it up by and by when I seize my brush and start a riot in the heavens that will make its rows of ...
— Over the Pass • Frederick Palmer


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