Word List Railroads and Trains 249 words

Railroads and Trains Vocabulary Word List (249)

• A

  abandon, accident, adequate, aid, all aboard!, all-clear, Amtrak, appeal, automation, axle

• B

  ballast, bankrupt, baron, billow, blocks, blue-collar, boiler, bolt, brake, brakeman, branch line, buff

• C

  cab, caboose, call, cargo, carry, cars, chugged, circuit, cities, class, clerk, coaches, coal, colored-light, comfort, communication, commute, commuter, competition, conductor, conglomerate, connect, consolidation, container, controls, coolies, corporation, costs, coupler, crew, cross-tie, crossing, culture, curve

• D

  denim, derail, detection, device, diesel, dining car, direction, discontinue, disputes, distance, double-deck, downhill

• E

  efficient, electric, elevated, engine, engineer, equipment, express, extend, extent

• F

  fast, fast-track, federal, finances, fireman, fish-plate, flange, flatcar, freight, frontier, fuel, future

• G

  gangs, gas-turbine, gauge, government, grade, grant

• H

  hauling, heavy, high-speed, historical, history, hobby, hopper car, hotbox, hydraulics

• I

  immigrants, industry, inefficient, inspection, interchange, intercity

• J

  jam, job, joint bar, journal box, journey, junction

• K

  keen, keep

• L

  label, labor, linking, locomotive, long-distance, luxurious

• M

  machinery, mail, main-line, maintenance, major, mediate, merge, Metro, metro-liner, model, money, monopoly, monorail, multiple track

• N

  network, nonstop

• O

  oil-burning, operation, order, overall, overheat, overuse

• P

  passenger, passion, piggyback service, popular, power, precaution, private car, profit, provide, public, puff, pull, Pullman

• Q

  quality, quantity, query, quest

• R

  rail car, railroad, rails, rate, redirect, refrigeration, registration, regulate, repair, retarder, rights, roadbed, rolling stock, route, run, running

• S

  safety, scanner, seats, security, semaphore, serve, service, settlers, shape, shipping, shop, sidings, sight see, signal, size, sleek, sleeping car, smoke, speed, spike, stable, standard, standard, station, steam, steam-power, steel, stop, strength, strike, subway, switch, system

• T

  technology, terminal, TGV, ticket, toil, tough, town, track, traffic, transcontinental, transportation, traveler, tunnel

• U

  uncouple, unions, unprofitable, uphill

• V

  Vanderbilt, vibration, vision, vital

• W

  weather, weight, weld, westward, wheel, whistle, whistle stop, work rules, worker, worldwide, worn, wreck

• X

• Y

  yard

• Z

  zeal, Zephyr