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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The trainload of passengers, now kitted out for a jungle excursion, stepped out into tropical heat and loaded into a caravan of open-air jeeps to explore the park.
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Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 16 July 2025
As trainloads of Jews were sent to concentration camps like Auschwitz-Birkenau and Treblinka in 1942 and 1943, Polish police participated in the Nazi evacuations of these ghettos, rounding Jews up, killing anyone who resisted and sometimes even conducting the evacuations themselves.
—Zev Stub, Sun Sentinel, 12 Dec. 2024
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.
—Antony J. Blinken, Foreign Affairs, 1 Oct. 2024
From midnight until noon today trainloads of people arrived.
—Kevin Dayhoff, Baltimore Sun, 6 July 2024
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Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 16 July 2025
As trainloads of Jews were sent to concentration camps like Auschwitz-Birkenau and Treblinka in 1942 and 1943, Polish police participated in the Nazi evacuations of these ghettos, rounding Jews up, killing anyone who resisted and sometimes even conducting the evacuations themselves.
—Zev Stub, Sun Sentinel, 12 Dec. 2024
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.
—Antony J. Blinken, Foreign Affairs, 1 Oct. 2024
From midnight until noon today trainloads of people arrived.
—Kevin Dayhoff, Baltimore Sun, 6 July 2024
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“Trainload.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trainload. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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