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An aggregation of cars drawn by an engine or engines. La Mere v Railway Transfer Co. 125 Minn 159, 145 NW 1068. Engine and cars assembled and coupled together for a run or trip on a railroad. United States v Erie R. Co. 237 US 402, 59 L Ed 1019,35SCt621.
A train pulled by a small engine called a "dummy," although exclusively engaged in carrying passengers, is a railroad train, within the meaning of a statute prescribing precautions to be observed by railroads. Birmingham Mineral Railroad Co. v Jacobs, 92 Ala 187, 9 So 320.
Within the air-brake provision of the Federal Safety Appliance Act, a train consists of an engine and cars which have been assembled and coupled together for a run or trip along the road. When a train is thus made up and is proceeding on its journey it is within the operation of the air-brake provision. But it is otherwise with the various movements in railroad yards whereby cars are assembled and coupled into outgoing trains, and whereby incoming trains which have completed their run are broken up. These are not train movements but are mere switching operations, and so are not within the air-brake provision. United States v Southern Pacific Co. (CA9 Cal) 100 F2d 984.
A locomotive with one or more cars attached to it, with or without passengers or freight, in motion upon a railroad from one point to another by means of power furnished by the locomotive, would undoubtedly constitute a train. Caron v Boston & Al. R. 164 Mass 523, 527, 42 NE 112.
See accommodation train; local freight train; mixed train; passenger train; regular passenger train; wild train.
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