freight train

noun
a train of freight cars.

Origin:
1835–45

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freight train

noun
a railroad train consisting of freight cars 
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Freight train is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
Example sentences
Babies learn colors as a freight train moves from day to night.
In consequence of a freight train having run off the track, they were delayed
  three hours.
Go watch a freight train go by and see how many cars have a sodium hydroxide
  label on them.
While aboard a freight train, an incipient fistfight suddenly melts into a
  clinch.
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