milk train
Early dairy transport
A milk train is a train that runs in the early morning hours, originally so called because it transported fresh milk from rural dairies to cities before dawn.
The term extends to any slow local train that makes many stops: He caught the milk train at 4 a.m.
The phrase suggests unglamorous, workaday transportation.
- railcarTrack-bound transport vessel
- locomotiveRailway pulling machine
- steam whistleVapor-powered acoustic signal
- bygone eraPeriod no longer current
- old fashionedNo longer contemporary
wagon · crack of dawn · local stops · nostalgia · dairy · community ties · whistle stop · glass bottles · branch line · country station · pasteurization · railway station · local economy · rail transport · agricultural produce · creamery · supply chain · pre-dawn
- railwayslocomotives, locomotive, tracks, rails, railway
milk trainexpress train
Limited-stop rail service
express · bullet train · high-speed train · through train · rapide
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