milk train

noun

, Informal.

1. a local train running through the early hours of the morning.

Word History and Origins

Origin of milk train¹

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55

Example Sentences

They met in 2011, when the two acted together in the Roundabout Theatre’s production of “The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore” in New York City.

From Los Angeles Times

In 2011 she starred in an off-Broadway production of Tennessee Williams’ “The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore.”

From Seattle Times

Mr. Hunter headlined a short-lived television series on NBC, “The Tab Hunter Show”; performed alongside Tallulah Bankhead in a Tennessee Williams play on Broadway, “The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore”; appeared in dinner theater; and decamped to Italy, where he appeared in spaghetti westerns that were, he joked, “short on meat sauce.”

From Washington Post

I know, technically, he’s a couple of years younger than I am, but he writes with the fierce wit and well-aimed anger to which I aspire, and as this wheezing milk train of a presidential campaign clanks into the final station, few have been as perceptive when it comes to trying to figure out just what the hell has happened to America this year.

From Salon

With four hundred meters to go, Washington simply blew past the exhausted boys from Penn, like an express train passing the morning milk train, swinging into the last few hundred meters with extraordinary grace and power.

From Literature