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  • noun Plural form of trainload.

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Examples

  • Bulk oil is still carried about the country by train, in trainloads of several tens of thousands of tons a time.

    Tanked Up Peter Ashley 2008

  • From Lorraine, as from Alsace, they are being expelled in trainloads to make room for Hitler's Germans-thrown out with a suitcase and thirty dollars of all their possessions.

    Close to the War 1940

  • The train left Budapest on July 1, 1944, was detoured to Bergen-Belsen for an extended period of time, but in the end those aboard did make their way to Switzerland in two trainloads.

    theBookmark 2010

  • BEACHWOOD — Nearly a century ago, trainloads of people began flowing into the small waterfront borough of Beachwood to choose the lot of land that they received while purchasing a six-month subscription to the New York Tribune.

    BHA in the Asbury Park Press « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2009

  • The train left Budapest on July 1, 1944, was detoured to Bergen-Belsen for an extended period of time, but in the end those aboard did make their way to Switzerland in two trainloads.

    Chapter News 2010

  • Two trainloads carrying most of the New Zealanders left Salonika on the 11th

    Ron Cridge 2010

  • As a result, it didn't have trainloads of passengers blocking tracks, making it easier to clear them and run near-normal rush hour subway service.

    City Pulls Off a Snow Job Michael Howard Saul 2011

  • BEACHWOOD — Nearly a century ago, trainloads of people began flowing into the small waterfront borough of Beachwood to choose the lot of land that they received while purchasing a six-month subscription to the New York Tribune.

    2009 January « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2009

  • They run their big eighteen wheel trucks up and down our main road and ship trainloads of sugar cane into the ingenio.

    Zafra 2009

  • BEACHWOOD — Nearly a century ago, trainloads of people began flowing into the small waterfront borough of Beachwood to choose the lot of land that they received while purchasing a six-month subscription to the New York Tribune.

    2009 January 08 « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2009

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