way-train

But that was fast for a Spanish way-train, which does not run, but, as it were, walks with dignity and makes long stops at stations, to rest and let the locomotive roll itself a cigarette.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

In the sense of human brotherhood which the fact inspired I was not so lonely as I might have been, when we resumed our gloomy progress, with all that punctilio which custom demands of a Spanish way-train.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

The hordes of the way-train were not altogether new to Carol.

Main Street 2004

But we were nervous because we had already suffered from the delays of people at the last hotel where our motor-bus stopped to take up passengers; they lingered so long over lunch that we were sure we should miss the Sud – Express, and we did not see how we could live in Escorial till the way-train started; yet for all their delays we reached the station in time and more.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

He is satisfied when he lies down upon the bed, which awaited him, it seems, as he came hither on the way-train -- quite satisfied that Spener of Spenersberg must be a man worth seeing.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various

Philadelphia and expecting Baltimore, are attracted, if it is a way-train, by a phenomenon.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various

Who it was we could not imagine; that it was not a neighbor we were convinced by seeing the morning _Herald_ and _Times_, for the Sunday papers cannot be obtained here, save by being at the depot when the interminable way-train comes up from New York, and waylaying the newsboy who accompanies the cars; and for this our neighbors are rarely sufficiently enterprising.

The Story of a Summer Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua Cecilia Pauline Cleveland

No business man takes the way-train in preference to the express.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Various

To mend matters, Gartrell's regiment of Georgians, eight hundred and fifty _strong_, and three other companies of Georgians from Pensacola, had been left here to meet a way-train, which failing, they bivouacked by the roadside.

Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon

The hordes of the way-train were not altogether new to Carol.

Main Street 1920