railroad train
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Definition
- Noun:
- A connected series of railway vehicles moved by a locomotive: A "railroad train" is a form of public transport consisting of a line of cars or wagons coupled together and powered by a locomotive engine for travel on railway tracks.
Examples of Usage
- Noun:
- The long railroad train carried coal from the mines to the port.
- We heard the whistle of the approaching railroad train.
- The schedule showed that a railroad train would arrive every hour.
Advanced Usage
- "to catch/miss a railroad train": To board or fail to board a train before its departure.
- We had to run to catch the last railroad train of the night.
- "freight railroad train": A train specifically designed to transport goods rather than passengers.
- A long freight railroad train blocked the crossing for several minutes.
Variants and Related Words
- Train (n): A more common, shorter synonym for "railroad train".
- The passenger train was full.
- Locomotive (n): The engine that provides the power to move the train.
- The steam locomotive was a marvel of engineering.
- Railcar / Railway car (n): One of the individual vehicles that make up a train.
- We sat in the first-class railcar.
Synonyms
- Train: A connected series of railroad cars.
- Railway train: A train operating on a railway system.
Related Phrases
- Train set (n): A model or toy replica of a railroad train and its tracks.
- The child spent hours playing with his electric train set.
- Train station (n): A place where trains stop to pick up and drop off passengers or goods.
- We waited at the train station.
Related Idioms
- "Like a runaway train": Describing something that is out of control or progressing with unstoppable speed and force.
- The project's costs were increasing like a runaway train.
Noun
- public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive
- express trains don't stop at Princeton Junction