a train operated over a line of track by more than one railway company.
- 1959  His death was the fifth caused by the collision in which a CNR freight ripped open the side of a dining car on a pool passenger train being shunted in the yards.
- 1965  At one time the pool trains ran over the CNR to Brockville and then by CPR tracks to Ottawa. . . . As at the end of October, the pool trains ceased to exist and the two railways went on their separate ways.