troop-train

As they were descending they swept across a railroad directly over a troop-train that was heading at full speed for Chicago.

Chapter 23: The People of the Abyss 2010

As our train drew into the station a troop-train full of men from the International Column was drawing out, and a knot of people on the bridge were waving to them.

Homage to Catalonia 1938

That a troop-train was standing in the siding at Palais de

The Tale of a Trooper 1930

At least, we gathered this from remarks we overheard as we marched silently along to the waiting troop-train.

Private Peat Harold Reginald Peat 1926

The Vikzhel was hostile, refusing to transport Soviet troops; every troop-train that left Petrograd was taken out by force, and railway officials had to be arrested each time—whereupon the Vikzhel threatened an immediate general strike unless they were released….

Chapter 11. The Conquest of Power 1922

All this five years ago on a murky station in the tragedy of parting, while Belgium was being trampled and the troop-train waited.

The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel Coningsby Dawson 1921

At five o'clock we halted at a junction, where a troop-train from the

The Glory of the Trenches Coningsby Dawson 1921

It's such a different ending from the one we dreamt when I saw you off on the troop-train with my hair all blowy down my back.

The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel Coningsby Dawson 1921

She was brave -- pointed out the line of the German advance on the map -- and it was in a troop-train crowded with French soldiers -- and then burst into wild weeping, clasping the hand of an English writing-man so that her nails dug into his flesh.

Now It Can Be Told Philip Gibbs 1919

At least, we gathered this from remarks we overheard as we marched silently along to the waiting troop-train.

Private Peat Peat, Harold R 1917