trainload
noun
train·load
ˈtrān-ˌlōd 
: the full freight or passenger capacity of a railroad train
also
: a load that fills a train
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North Korea delivered trainloads of weapons and ammunition, including millions of artillery rounds and ballistic missiles and launchers, in direct violation of multiple UN Security Council resolutions.
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Antony J. Blinken, Foreign Affairs, 1 Oct. 2024
From midnight until noon today trainloads of people arrived.
—Kevin Dayhoff, Baltimore Sun, 6 July 2024
Russia’s importation of fuel from Belarus—a single trainload consisting of less than half a percent of Russia’s weekly gasoline consumption—does not indicate that Russia is experiencing a nationwide fuel shortage.
—Sergey Vakulenko, Foreign Affairs, 25 June 2024
Soon thereafter, trainloads of North Korean artillery shells started rolling to Russian troops in Ukraine—by American calculations, as many as one million munitions, or roughly three times what European nations had been able to supply in a whole year.
—Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2023
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Antony J. Blinken, Foreign Affairs, 1 Oct. 2024
From midnight until noon today trainloads of people arrived.
—Kevin Dayhoff, Baltimore Sun, 6 July 2024
Russia’s importation of fuel from Belarus—a single trainload consisting of less than half a percent of Russia’s weekly gasoline consumption—does not indicate that Russia is experiencing a nationwide fuel shortage.
—Sergey Vakulenko, Foreign Affairs, 25 June 2024
Soon thereafter, trainloads of North Korean artillery shells started rolling to Russian troops in Ukraine—by American calculations, as many as one million munitions, or roughly three times what European nations had been able to supply in a whole year.
—Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2023
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“Trainload.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trainload. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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