freight-trains

They descend in droves, adopting the military precision of the freight-trains and torpedoes of an era, long gone.

Harlequin 2010

From there, Jews from the entire district were transported further on freight-trains.

Avram Hershko - Autobiography 2005

Subconsciously, as he turned the pages, he felt a pity for the poor fellows on top of freight-trains who must endure the pitiless buffeting of the storm.

Reveries of a Schoolmaster Francis B. Pearson

At early dawn they left the Junction and its busy scenes -- its lengthy freight-trains, and almost acres of baggage-wagons, to the rear, and struck the route assigned the Grand Division, of which they were part, for Fredericksburg.

Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac William H. Armstrong

The Northern freight-trains waiting at Sacramento to make a junction with our road are loaded with the produce of one of the richest agricultural regions in the world, now flowing to its first remunerative market.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

Two freight-trains were to start at 8.40, but ten minutes before that the crews sent word that they would not take the trains out.

A Short History of Pittsburgh Samuel Harden Church

Central City, on its way to square accounts with New York for the contents of one of those freight-trains.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

For some months preceding the riots at Pittsburgh disturbances among the railroad employees, especially the engineers and brakemen of freight-trains, had been frequent on railroads west and east of this city.

A Short History of Pittsburgh Samuel Harden Church

Every few miles we continue to meet freight-trains laden with all the well-known products of the Western field and dairy.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

Remembering these, and other times that the herds had gathered and swept over the plains, a plague of monstrous locusts, pushing aside men and freight-trains, I knew what would happen should the buffalo close their ranks, marshal the scattered groups into closer formation, quicken the pace of the multitude that poured down from the north.

Raw Gold A Novel Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926