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freight train † 
a railway train transporting goods.
- 1854 We grieve to learn that another collision occurred on the Great Western Railway, between a passenger train and a freight train, near Thamesville, on Friday last.
- 1916 Rivers and York boats and trail-carts were being superceded by freight trains and passenger coaches.
- 1955 Cargoes must now be unloaded at North Sydney, put aboard the ship and discharged at Port aux Basques to be reloaded on freight trains.
2 Hist. a wagon train, as of Red River carts, or larger vehicles, transporting goods.
See also: Red River cart
- 1880 When the freight train from Edmonton had come, the Indians from the lake and those in charge of the carts spent the evening in the red man's favourite recreation, gambling.
- 1926 The freight trains were imposing bodies of great wagons and boiling bulls. Eight yoke made a team, and four teams made a train, a foreman being in charge of each brigade and each train being supplied with cook and mess-wagon.
- 1854 We grieve to learn that another collision occurred on the Great Western Railway, between a passenger train and a freight train, near Thamesville, on Friday last.