coal train

Noun

coal train (plural coal trains)

1. a freight train which carries a single commodity: coal.
   • Some interesting facts have recently been made known by the L.N.E.R. concerning the 178-ton Garratt 2-8-0 + 0-8-2 engine No. 2395, which since construction in 1925 has spent the whole of its working life banking coal trains up the 3 miles of 1 in 40 between Wentworth junction and West Silkstone, on...1942 March, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes”, in Railway Magazine, page 93
   • 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, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 61