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freight trains

n. (freight train English)

Usage examples of "freight trains".

The Union of Railway Conductors and Brakemen was demanding that the length of all freight trains on the John Galt Line be reduced to sixty cars.

Toy freight trains began to chug through and around a miniature range of mountains —.

Although freight trains made regular runs to points Down Below, most manufactures were shipped by truck.

With the force of a thousand freight trains, the unearthly howl of winds spinning in excess of three hundred miles per hour reached both pilots' ears simultaneously as the Grumman entered the side of a tightly packed tornado funnel at a hundred and ninety knots and instantly flipped sideways, exceeding by several hundred percent the maximum design loads for the structure as the wings and the tail were ripped from their fittings and flung away in a cloud of aluminum parts.

That was awkward, because the freight trains were not scheduled with political campaigns in mind, or, indeed, with any living folk in mind.

After her mother died, he had wanted the two of them to live a civilized life without him racing after the freight trains and the big money.

There was something about the sound of a railroad whistle in the night to inspire young folk stuck with a heap of chores on a hardscrabble homestead to try their luck hopping freight trains to far places.

That seemed to be the ratio of passengers to freight, except that there were more freight trains than passenger trains.

But on all railroads troop trains had first priority, freight trains heading east had second priority, other freight trains had third priority - and passenger trains could use the rails only when nobody else wanted them.

Perhaps Perhaps hardest on those men, some no longer young, who'd left families behind, dependent on kinfolk, while they rode freight trains to California's orange groves, Idaho's potato farms, Arizuna's irrigated cotton fields, where rumor said jobs could be found.