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Definition of cat train in English: cat trainnoun Canadian A crawler tractor pulling a train of sleighs across snow or ice. Example sentencesExamples - He and Joe put many a tough hour with the cat train.
- John Gould presented a slide show about his days on the Dempster cat trains at the Oddfellows Hall.
- However, the cat train method was slow and cumbersome, restricting the amount of freight that could be transported.
- From these points, transportation to various isolated camps would either be by cat train or bush plane.
- Though the company hoped to acquire airplanes as a means of transporting freight and mail, they never did, but used snowmobiles and cat trains instead.
- The speed of the cat train was between three and four miles an hour; thus 25 miles of travel was considered a good day's accomplishment.
Definition of cat train in US English: cat trainnoun Canadian A crawler tractor pulling a train of sleighs across snow or ice. Example sentencesExamples - From these points, transportation to various isolated camps would either be by cat train or bush plane.
- However, the cat train method was slow and cumbersome, restricting the amount of freight that could be transported.
- John Gould presented a slide show about his days on the Dempster cat trains at the Oddfellows Hall.
- Though the company hoped to acquire airplanes as a means of transporting freight and mail, they never did, but used snowmobiles and cat trains instead.
- He and Joe put many a tough hour with the cat train.
- The speed of the cat train was between three and four miles an hour; thus 25 miles of travel was considered a good day's accomplishment.
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