trainload

noun train·load \ ˈtrān-ˌlōd \

Updated on: 22 Apr 2018

Definition of trainload

: the full freight or passenger capacity of a railroad train; also : a load that fills a train

Recent Examples of trainload from the Web

Some say the trainloads of New Yorkers’ excrement is turning Alabama into a dumping ground for other states’ waste.

— Washington Post, "‘Poop Train’ full of NYC sewage raises stink in Alabama town," 18 Apr. 2018
Word of the performance’s cancellation, which had been broadcast on the radio, was rescinded, and crowds started forming at the theater: Yale students, local fans and trainloads of theater folk from Manhattan.

— frank rizzo, New York Times, "At First Performance of ‘My Fair Lady,’ the Drama Was Offstage," 13 Apr. 2018
Prosecutors said Groening — who did not kill anyone himself while working at Auschwitz — had helped support the regime responsible for mass murder by sorting bank notes seized from trainloads of arriving Jews.

— NBC News, "Oskar Groening, known as ‘Bookkeeper of Auschwitz,’ asks for clemency," 15 Jan. 2018
The 1880 opening has a trainload of New York money men arriving in Menlo Park, New Jersey, and traipsing through mud to witness cigar-puffing egomaniac Edison flick the switch on a dazzling demonstration of his product.

— david rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, "'The Current War': Film Review | TIFF 2017," 10 Sep. 2017
Finn and his crew steal big, tangible items: entire factory lines, car trailers full of luxury automobiles, maybe a trainload of rare metal — that kind of stuff.

— adam woog, The Seattle Times, "These crime-fiction novels deliver the goods," 3 Sep. 2017
Trainloads of artichokes heading across the continent were no less safe.

— shirley burgett, The Mercury News, "Matters Historical: The kingdom of the artichoke and the battle for its profits," 4 Jan. 2017

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