freight train

noun
1.
a train of freight cars.
Origin
1835-45
Examples from the web for freight train
  • Go watch a freight train go by and see how many cars have a sodium hydroxide label on them.
  • Its a runaway freight train that will make us poorer and less free.
  • The freight train rumble described by tornado survivors is a typical description for a reason.
  • In consequence of a freight train having run off the track, they were delayed three hours.
  • The movie plows through one outrageous sequence to the next with the momentum of a freight train.
  • While aboard a freight train, an incipient fistfight suddenly melts into a clinch.
  • Babies learn colors as a freight train moves from day to night.