coal train
English
A coal train in Queensland, 1991
Noun
coal train (plural coal trains)
- (rail transport) a freight train which carries a single commodity: coal.
- 1959, Steam's Finest Hour, edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 61:
- Out in Ohio on test on level, tangent track a single 2-6-6-6 once moved a 160-car, 14.083-ton coal train to 19 miles per hour from a standing start in 1 mile and 6 minutes, and had it rolling 29 miles per hour within a total elapsed time of 11 minutes.
- 1959, Steam's Finest Hour, edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 61:
Further reading
- “coal train” (US) / “coal train” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.
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