How To Use Freight train In A Sentence
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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
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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
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Does anyone want to confess to being the one who snores like a freight train?
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We made good time out of San Antonio and saw lots of freight trains on the sidings.
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Over 15 seconds, the rumble loudened to the roar of a thousand freight trains.
USATODAY.com - Miracles emerge from debris
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British Railways closed the ailing branch line to passenger traffic in December 1961 and the last freight train ran several months later.
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Sitting track-side we were amazed at the number of passenger and especially freight trains that thundered past.
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It's thought that two freight trains collided, sparking a giant fireball that devastated the surrounding area.
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The lorry cab came to rest on the railway line, where a freight train then ploughed into it, pushing it down the track.
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I travelled by foot, by hitch-hiking and by clambering onto the wagons of freight trains.
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Off the rails Freight trains with seemingly endless numbers of carriages will continue to rumble past on the rail line that skirts the course.
Times, Sunday Times
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They shared a top tier of bunks in a corner of a freight train.
Times, Sunday Times
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Passengers stopped travelling that line in 1970 and freight trains stopped using it in 1980.
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It features five huge warehouses, each served by a railway siding, allowing goods to be moved from freight trains into storage and on to lorries.
Times, Sunday Times
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The accident could have been avoided only by detecting the track fault and preventing the freight train derailment.
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As he was about to reach my friend, the freight train roared and the house shuddered and howled, but the old man never knew it.
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Another train wreck today: California freight train collided with a passenger train.
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He was a freight train conductor but could not work.
The Sun
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Armed guards had for decades been placed on freight trains carrying easily stolen freight through populated areas, but thefts in transit continued.
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a long-distance freight train
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Unfortunately, he's a runaway freight train of creativity, with no one in the brake room to slow down his torrent of hangdog, peculiarly American balladry.
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Rail passengers were warned last night to expect delays over the next four days after a freight train derailed near the Scottish border.
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At Steeton railway station at a quarter to five on the morning of October 11, 1943, the Leeds-Edinburgh express collided with a freight train being shunted into a siding.
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We made good time out of San Antonio and saw lots of freight trains on the sidings.
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Five minutes after we are off the tracks comes a loaded freight train rolling at a solid clip.
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Many risk their lives to stow away on freight trains.
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A commuter train collided with a freight train in a Los Angeles suburb, killing 26 people.
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Five rail workers were among the victims of the head-on collision between a passenger train and a freight train in thick fog near Bologna.
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I travelled by foot, by hitch-hiking and by clambering onto the wagons of freight trains.
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We spent the rest of our time in town watching freight trains noisily pass over the diamond.
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None of the freight trains in that section of the state ever ran at night, so we saw no apparent danger or harm in borrowing the handcars for a few hours.
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They blew up the line and derailed a freight train as well.
Times, Sunday Times
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After the last romantic swell had subsided, he took Fannie by her callused little hand, led her to his room, undressed her, and lay down with her on the tracks before the conjunctional freight train.
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
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The freight train was partially derailed, with its shattered front end resting close to a home.
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At Steeton railway station at a quarter to five on the morning of October 11, 1943, the Leeds-Edinburgh express collided with a freight train being shunted into a siding.
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It was due here at twenty minutes after five, but an accident occurring to a freight train, the track became obstructed, and a detention of nearly three hours was the result.
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The crash occurred when a freight train collided with an incoming passenger train.
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Meanwhile, the New Zealand Interislander Ferry is bearing down on us like a 350-foot long, 40-foot tall aquatic freight train.
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I wound up jumping freight trains, going to Texas and not going to school, working in the oil fields, bucking hay, and doing all kinds of stuff.
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One of the few times we were delayed by a freight train happened on this stretch.
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This shop was later shut down with the end of the use of cabooses on most freight trains.
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The final freight train (I learned this from the friends of the high line) carried three carloads of frozen turkeys.
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A hardened criminal and his young accomplice escape from prison and board a freight train.
The Sun
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Lutuli died in 1967 at the age of 69, fatally injured when he was struck by a freight train as he walked on a bridge over the
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Call it the Yao Ming Effect, a phenomenon where the towering Rockets' center and his deserving All-Star credentials pull along a freight train filled with his, uh, less-than-glittering teammates.
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The money is not there people and with the dollar already loosing it's value to all this spending we are on a freight train headed for runaway inflation; sooner not later. kgeukes
Senators disagree on key details of health care reform
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The double track Botleks tunnel under the Oude Maas will carry freight trains between the docks and the Betuwe line.
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According to transport experts, one freight train carries the equivalent of 75 lorry loads, reducing road congestion and pollution levels.
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It was the fault of a vehicle falling off the bridge onto the railway, which caused a freight train to crash into a passenger carriage.
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The train then derailed into the path of an oncoming freight train.
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Honduran immigrant Jose Humberto Castro, 26, clings to a freight train on his way to the border with the United States in Orizaba in the state of Veracruz November 3, 2010.
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Diversionary loops also create extra track capacity for freight trains, enabling many more lorries to be taken off the roads.
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Finally, I'll forget about stripers real fast when big bluefish are just hitting anything you throw like a freight train.
Fish That Save The Day
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At the end of your tunnel/It's just a freight train comin your way/Then it comes to be that the soothing light/At the end of your tunnel
Griffith: 'I can no longer align myself' with Dems
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Naturally the CSX dispatcher radioed for the police to come investigate the freight train, and we got underway about 10 minutes or so later.
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Senator John and Cindy McCain admire Freight Train, the big boar contest winner, at the Iowa State Fair.
McCain at the Iowa State Fair - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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‘Look at that; it's a 66,’ he enthuses as a freight train thunders through.
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The scare began just after 5am when some one smelt acid as a freight train pulled into the station.
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The light at the end of the tunnel is a freight train but given the fact that the U.S. spends more money on “defense” than the rest of the planet combined, the legions have to do something.
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I wanted a story that moved like a freight train dropped off the edge of a cliff.
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I travelled by foot, by hitch-hiking and by clambering onto the wagons of freight trains.
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They shared a top tier of bunks in a corner of a freight train.
Times, Sunday Times
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After the impact the passenger train was derailed, but remained upright until it travelled over a set of points which deflected it into the path of the freight train travelling in the opposite direction.
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That sound was probably just part of the brakes, and I now see that a freight train is passing us on the right (our compartment is on the left).
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Amtrak does, although Conrail has an exclusive right to operate any freight trains on the corridor.
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He was a freight train conductor but could not work.
The Sun
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Freight trains travel slowly on upgrades into the hills.
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This bit of nonnews has to strike some in the Democratic Party the same way I looked upon the inevitability of the Bob Dole For President freight train in 1996.
From On High
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You often see freight trains composed of 20 or 30 fully laden wagons.
Times, Sunday Times
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The state government retains the right to license other operators to run passenger and freight trains over the country rail network.
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The incident occurred when 51 freight trains began rolling without a conductor and picked up speed.
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Freight trains travel slowly on upgrades into the hills.
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When a freight train passes it's as though a sonic boom has struck.
Times, Sunday Times
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Freight trains snarled in Chicago's rail yards, delaying eastbound carloads of clothing.
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And as many as 200 people have been evacuated in southern California after a freight train derailed today.
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Many communities traversed by freight trains have raised the issue of the whistles.
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Money was tight and we had to keep low, so we jumped a freight train to get back to New York.
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As a freight train rolls through the Alameda Corridor, a scanner inside a trackside hut records data transmitted from tags affixed to the train's cargo containers.
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She sneaked into town on a freight train, covered her uniform with civvies, stuffed her hair into a floppy hat and donned some oversized Ray-Bans.
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A spokesman said the freight train driver spotted the danger but could not prevent the collision.
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They shared a top tier of bunks in a corner of a freight train.
Times, Sunday Times
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The speckled trout hit a bait like a freight train.
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They blew up the line and derailed a freight train as well.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thank You Blue Dogs for stopping this freight train headed towards disaster.
Talks break down, intra-party tension heats up for House Democrats
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However, Sullivan said, when midday track work causes freight train congestion, sometimes the best thing to do is to move the freight train out of the way to make everything move ....
MARC riders on Brunswick Line endure two months of lengthy delays
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Two freight trains collided this morning near Kankakee, Illinois.
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Off the rails Freight trains with seemingly endless numbers of carriages will continue to rumble past on the rail line that skirts the course.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now, change that ‘few hundred cars’ to a mile-long freight train with a few carloads of anhydrous ammonia, or an LP-gas or crude oil tanker.
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As one of the astronauts described it, it's like being on a runaway freight train.
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Freight Train 36 has been shunted on to Track 6.
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As youre thinking of Nolan Ryan, you hear a freight train chug along
Little big league deep in the heart of Texas
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I travelled by foot, by hitch-hiking and by clambering onto the wagons of freight trains.
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The state government retains the right to license other operators to run passenger and freight trains over the country rail network.
