freight train

NOUN
  1. a railroad train consisting of freight cars
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How To Use freight train In A Sentence

  • On January 14, a freight train derailed two intermodal container cars, as it approached a highway underpass near Whitby. Our Collective Role in Transportation Safety
  • The taxes you talk about, at least what's being reported in the news, the so-called surtax -- half of that surtax is going to fall on small business owners filing as individuals in this country, and so, it appears for all of the world like a massive government-run insurance plan paid for with a freight train of mandates and taxes and bureaucracy. CNN Transcript Oct 29, 2009
  • Does anyone want to confess to being the one who snores like a freight train?
  • We made good time out of San Antonio and saw lots of freight trains on the sidings.
  • Over 15 seconds, the rumble loudened to the roar of a thousand freight trains. USATODAY.com - Miracles emerge from debris
  • British Railways closed the ailing branch line to passenger traffic in December 1961 and the last freight train ran several months later.
  • Sitting track-side we were amazed at the number of passenger and especially freight trains that thundered past.
  • It's thought that two freight trains collided, sparking a giant fireball that devastated the surrounding area.
  • The lorry cab came to rest on the railway line, where a freight train then ploughed into it, pushing it down the track.
  • I travelled by foot, by hitch-hiking and by clambering onto the wagons of freight trains.
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