Word List Trains and Railroad 265 words

Trains and Railroad Vocabulary Word List (265)

• A

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

• B

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

• C

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

• D

  denim, derail, detection, device, diesel, dining car, 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, fishplate, 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, iron plates

• J

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

• K

  keen, keep

• L

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

• M

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

• N

  network, nonstop

• O

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

• P

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

• Q

  quality, quantity, query, quest

• R

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

• S

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

• T

  tanker, technology, terminal, TGV, third rail, ticket, tie, toil, tough, town, toy, tracks, traffic, train, transcontinental, transportation, traveler, trees, tunnel

• U

  uncouple, unions, unprofitable, uphill

• V

  vibration, vision, vital

• W

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

• X

• Y

  yard

• Z

  zeal, Zephyr