How To Use Freight train In A Sentence
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They blew up the line and derailed a freight train as well.
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The state government retains the right to license other operators to run passenger and freight trains over the country rail network.
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You often see freight trains composed of 20 or 30 fully laden wagons.
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This bit of nonnews has to strike some in the Democratic Party the same way I looked upon the inevitability of the Bob Dole For President freight train in 1996.
From On High
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Freight trains travel slowly on upgrades into the hills.
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He was a freight train conductor but could not work.
The Sun
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Amtrak does, although Conrail has an exclusive right to operate any freight trains on the corridor.
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That sound was probably just part of the brakes, and I now see that a freight train is passing us on the right (our compartment is on the left).
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After the impact the passenger train was derailed, but remained upright until it travelled over a set of points which deflected it into the path of the freight train travelling in the opposite direction.
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They shared a top tier of bunks in a corner of a freight train.
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I travelled by foot, by hitch-hiking and by clambering onto the wagons of freight trains.
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According to transport experts, one freight train carries the equivalent of 75 lorry loads, reducing road congestion and pollution levels.
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The light at the end of the tunnel is a freight train but given the fact that the U.S. spends more money on “defense” than the rest of the planet combined, the legions have to do something.
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The scare began just after 5am when some one smelt acid as a freight train pulled into the station.
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‘Look at that; it's a 66,’ he enthuses as a freight train thunders through.
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Senator John and Cindy McCain admire Freight Train, the big boar contest winner, at the Iowa State Fair.
McCain at the Iowa State Fair - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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Naturally the CSX dispatcher radioed for the police to come investigate the freight train, and we got underway about 10 minutes or so later.
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At the end of your tunnel/It's just a freight train comin your way/Then it comes to be that the soothing light/At the end of your tunnel
Griffith: 'I can no longer align myself' with Dems
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Finally, I'll forget about stripers real fast when big bluefish are just hitting anything you throw like a freight train.
Fish That Save The Day
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Diversionary loops also create extra track capacity for freight trains, enabling many more lorries to be taken off the roads.
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Honduran immigrant Jose Humberto Castro, 26, clings to a freight train on his way to the border with the United States in Orizaba in the state of Veracruz November 3, 2010.
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The train then derailed into the path of an oncoming freight train.
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It was the fault of a vehicle falling off the bridge onto the railway, which caused a freight train to crash into a passenger carriage.
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I wanted a story that moved like a freight train dropped off the edge of a cliff.
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The state government retains the right to license other operators to run passenger and freight trains over the country rail network.
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I travelled by foot, by hitch-hiking and by clambering onto the wagons of freight trains.
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As youre thinking of Nolan Ryan, you hear a freight train chug along
Little big league deep in the heart of Texas
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Freight Train 36 has been shunted on to Track 6.
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As one of the astronauts described it, it's like being on a runaway freight train.
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Now, change that ‘few hundred cars’ to a mile-long freight train with a few carloads of anhydrous ammonia, or an LP-gas or crude oil tanker.
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Off the rails Freight trains with seemingly endless numbers of carriages will continue to rumble past on the rail line that skirts the course.
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Two freight trains collided this morning near Kankakee, Illinois.
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However, Sullivan said, when midday track work causes freight train congestion, sometimes the best thing to do is to move the freight train out of the way to make everything move ....
MARC riders on Brunswick Line endure two months of lengthy delays
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Thank You Blue Dogs for stopping this freight train headed towards disaster.
Talks break down, intra-party tension heats up for House Democrats
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The incident occurred when 51 freight trains began rolling without a conductor and picked up speed.
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The speckled trout hit a bait like a freight train.
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They shared a top tier of bunks in a corner of a freight train.
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A spokesman said the freight train driver spotted the danger but could not prevent the collision.
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She sneaked into town on a freight train, covered her uniform with civvies, stuffed her hair into a floppy hat and donned some oversized Ray-Bans.
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As a freight train rolls through the Alameda Corridor, a scanner inside a trackside hut records data transmitted from tags affixed to the train's cargo containers.
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Money was tight and we had to keep low, so we jumped a freight train to get back to New York.
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Many communities traversed by freight trains have raised the issue of the whistles.
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And as many as 200 people have been evacuated in southern California after a freight train derailed today.
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Freight trains snarled in Chicago's rail yards, delaying eastbound carloads of clothing.
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When a freight train passes it's as though a sonic boom has struck.
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Freight trains travel slowly on upgrades into the hills.
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The crash occurred when a freight train collided with an incoming passenger train.
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We made good time out of San Antonio and saw lots of freight trains on the sidings.
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At Steeton railway station at a quarter to five on the morning of October 11, 1943, the Leeds-Edinburgh express collided with a freight train being shunted into a siding.
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Rail passengers were warned last night to expect delays over the next four days after a freight train derailed near the Scottish border.
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Unfortunately, he's a runaway freight train of creativity, with no one in the brake room to slow down his torrent of hangdog, peculiarly American balladry.
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a long-distance freight train
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Armed guards had for decades been placed on freight trains carrying easily stolen freight through populated areas, but thefts in transit continued.
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He was a freight train conductor but could not work.
The Sun
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Another train wreck today: California freight train collided with a passenger train.
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As he was about to reach my friend, the freight train roared and the house shuddered and howled, but the old man never knew it.
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The accident could have been avoided only by detecting the track fault and preventing the freight train derailment.
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It features five huge warehouses, each served by a railway siding, allowing goods to be moved from freight trains into storage and on to lorries.
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On January 14, a freight train derailed two intermodal container cars, as it approached a highway underpass near Whitby.
Our Collective Role in Transportation Safety
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They shared a top tier of bunks in a corner of a freight train.
Times, Sunday Times
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Off the rails Freight trains with seemingly endless numbers of carriages will continue to rumble past on the rail line that skirts the course.
Times, Sunday Times
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I travelled by foot, by hitch-hiking and by clambering onto the wagons of freight trains.
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The lorry cab came to rest on the railway line, where a freight train then ploughed into it, pushing it down the track.
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It's thought that two freight trains collided, sparking a giant fireball that devastated the surrounding area.
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Sitting track-side we were amazed at the number of passenger and especially freight trains that thundered past.
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British Railways closed the ailing branch line to passenger traffic in December 1961 and the last freight train ran several months later.
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Over 15 seconds, the rumble loudened to the roar of a thousand freight trains.
USATODAY.com - Miracles emerge from debris
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We made good time out of San Antonio and saw lots of freight trains on the sidings.
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Does anyone want to confess to being the one who snores like a freight train?
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The taxes you talk about, at least what's being reported in the news, the so-called surtax -- half of that surtax is going to fall on small business owners filing as individuals in this country, and so, it appears for all of the world like a massive government-run insurance plan paid for with a freight train of mandates and taxes and bureaucracy.
CNN Transcript Oct 29, 2009
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Passengers stopped travelling that line in 1970 and freight trains stopped using it in 1980.
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The double track Botleks tunnel under the Oude Maas will carry freight trains between the docks and the Betuwe line.
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The money is not there people and with the dollar already loosing it's value to all this spending we are on a freight train headed for runaway inflation; sooner not later. kgeukes
Senators disagree on key details of health care reform
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Call it the Yao Ming Effect, a phenomenon where the towering Rockets' center and his deserving All-Star credentials pull along a freight train filled with his, uh, less-than-glittering teammates.
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Lutuli died in 1967 at the age of 69, fatally injured when he was struck by a freight train as he walked on a bridge over the
ANC Daily News Briefing
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A hardened criminal and his young accomplice escape from prison and board a freight train.
The Sun
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The final freight train (I learned this from the friends of the high line) carried three carloads of frozen turkeys.
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This shop was later shut down with the end of the use of cabooses on most freight trains.
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One of the few times we were delayed by a freight train happened on this stretch.
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I wound up jumping freight trains, going to Texas and not going to school, working in the oil fields, bucking hay, and doing all kinds of stuff.
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Meanwhile, the New Zealand Interislander Ferry is bearing down on us like a 350-foot long, 40-foot tall aquatic freight train.
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Five minutes after we are off the tracks comes a loaded freight train rolling at a solid clip.
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It was due here at twenty minutes after five, but an accident occurring to a freight train, the track became obstructed, and a detention of nearly three hours was the result.
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At Steeton railway station at a quarter to five on the morning of October 11, 1943, the Leeds-Edinburgh express collided with a freight train being shunted into a siding.
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The freight train was partially derailed, with its shattered front end resting close to a home.
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After the last romantic swell had subsided, he took Fannie by her callused little hand, led her to his room, undressed her, and lay down with her on the tracks before the conjunctional freight train.
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
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They blew up the line and derailed a freight train as well.
Times, Sunday Times
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None of the freight trains in that section of the state ever ran at night, so we saw no apparent danger or harm in borrowing the handcars for a few hours.
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We spent the rest of our time in town watching freight trains noisily pass over the diamond.
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I travelled by foot, by hitch-hiking and by clambering onto the wagons of freight trains.
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Five rail workers were among the victims of the head-on collision between a passenger train and a freight train in thick fog near Bologna.
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A commuter train collided with a freight train in a Los Angeles suburb, killing 26 people.
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Many risk their lives to stow away on freight trains.
