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What (who) is freight train - definition

TRAIN USED FOR TRANSPORTATION OF FREIGHT
Goods train; Freight trains; Freight Train; Goods trains; Cargo train
  • A [[unit train]] with cargo from a quarry in the United Kingdom

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A freight train is a train on which goods are transported.
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A goods train is a train that transports goods and not people. (BRIT; in AM, use freight train
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Freight Train (folk song)         
ORIGINAL SONG WRITTEN AND COMPOSED BY ELIZABETH COTTEN
Freight Train (song)
"Freight Train" is an American folk song written by Elizabeth Cotten in the early 20th century, and popularized during the American folk revival and British skiffle period of the 1950s and 1960s. By Cotten's own account in the 1985 BBC series Down Home, she composed “Freight Train” as a teenager (sometime between 1906 and 1912), inspired by the sound of the trains rolling in on the tracks near her home in North Carolina.

Wikipedia

Freight train

A freight train, also called a goods train or cargo train, is a railway train that is used to carry cargo, as opposed to passengers. Freight trains are made up of one or more locomotives which provide propulsion, along with one or more railroad cars (also known as wagons) which carry freight. A wide variety of cargos are carried on trains, but the low friction inherent to rail transport means that freight trains are especially suited to carrying bulk and heavy loads over longer distances.

Examples of use of freight train
1. The freight train was traveling from Elizabeth, N.J., to Chicago.
2. In my view you can‘t hear Freight Train too often.
3. Deutsche Bahn recently bought EWS, Britain‘s largest freight train company.
4. Moments after accelerating, the engineer noticed the freight train ahead and applied his emergency brakes; the passenger train then skidded about 400 to 500 feet and slammed into the freight train at about 35 mph, Sumwalt said.
5. Federal investigators say the train was speeding moments before it hit the stationary freight train.