DCHP-3

freight train†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a railway train transporting goods.

Quotations

1854
We grieve to learn that another collision occurred on the Great Western Railway, between a passenger train and a freight train, near Thamesville, on Friday last.
1916
Rivers and York boats and trail-carts were being superceded by freight trains and passenger coaches.
1955
Cargoes must now be unloaded at North Sydney, put aboard the ship and discharged at Port aux Basques to be reloaded on freight trains.
2 — Hist.

a wagon train, as of Red River carts, or larger vehicles, transporting goods.

Quotations

1880
When the freight train from Edmonton had come, the Indians from the lake and those in charge of the carts spent the evening in the red man's favourite recreation, gambling.
1926
The freight trains were imposing bodies of great wagons and boiling bulls. Eight yoke made a team, and four teams made a train, a foreman being in charge of each brigade and each train being supplied with cook and mess-wagon.