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Gravity with a schedule: thousands of tons that stop arguing and start existing.
means A long line of connected rail cars, hauled by one or more locomotives, used to haul cargo rather than passengers over long distances.
from A straightforward compound: 'freight' (goods carried for payment, from Middle Dutch/Middle Low German 'vracht,' meaning the cost or load of shipping) joined to 'train,' from Old French 'trahiner/traîner' meaning to pull or drag — itself from Latin 'trahere,' to draw. So the phrase is literally just 'cargo that gets dragged,' a name coined once railroads made that dragging a scheduled, mechanized thing in the 1800s.
- stopping distance
- can take over a mile to halt
- length
- some exceed three miles coupled together
- idiom use
- means unstoppable force, rarely means cargo
- energy
- needs miles just to reach walking speed