accommodation train

American  

noun

1. Railroads Now Rare. a local train.

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Etymology

Origin of accommodation train

An Americanism dating back to 1830–40

Example Sentences

He met a man named Durham who was a gambler and decent and who in his spare moments punched tickets on the Under- ground Railway, the Negroes' accommodation train.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lincoln traveled by accommodation train, freight train, or wagon, as best he could.

From The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Ketcham, Henry

We are sorry to learn that the directors have established an accommodation train for Sunday morning between this city and Poughkeepsie, in addition to the mail train to Albany.

From Children of the Market Place by Masters, Edgar Lee

The fact that it was a decayed little coach at the end of a "mixed accommodation train" on a stub road did not matter.

From A Son of the Middle Border by Garland, Hamlin

He sprang across the rails after the conductor of the accommodation train that was just starting on.

From Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]