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1835 W. Truran Iron Manuf. xix. 167/2 Total power absorbed in driving a rail train capable of making 600 tons of rails weekly 239 H.P.

1868 Bessemer Process & Wks. in U.S. 24 The rail train is a twenty-one inch three-high train of the Fritz pattern, standing on a brick foundation, with a heavy oak cushion between. Steel rails are bloomed from nine-inch ingots, and then roughed down and finished at a reheat.

1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 167 Rail-train, a train of rolls for reducing iron piles or steel ingots or blooms to rails.

1843 C. L. Lordan Colloquies vi. 196 I fancy I see the pale and prudish planets, looking at a comet in its disorderly courses, like a maid from the backwoods beholding the passing of a rail-train.

1872 T. De W. Talmage Serm. 139 It is a rail-train..run into by a Bangor express.

1929 A. C. Laut Romance of Rails I. 108 A rail train could not get off its tracks for an intruder.

1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 1 July (Advt. Suppl.) 1/1 The Billings area is well served by a variety of transportation facilities and services: streets and highways, public transit, freight and passenger railtrains, airlines etc.

2004 F. Delbanco Ask me Anything 233 It was pouring rain when the commuter rail train pulled into Boston on Sunday afternoon.