trainload

trainload [treyn-lohd] ExamplesWord Origin noun Railroads.

the cargo or passenger capacity of a train.
a specified minimum number of loaded cars or tons of cargo necessary to secure a special rate (train·load rate).

Origin of trainload First recorded in 1880–85; train + load Examples from the Web for trainload Historical Examples of trainload

This shipper is the sort who gives the railroad tonnage in trainload lots.

Edward Hungerford

But when I do come I’ll probably have a trainload of directors, commissioners, stockholders.

Zane Grey

That trainload of workers is arriving; there’s trouble, rioting or something.

Clement Wood

But during the night a trainload of strike-breakers came from Chicago.

William Allen White

Guess they wanted the trainload of rations we were guarding.

Peter B. Kyne