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Old October 11th 04, 03:00 PM
Michael A. Covington
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I should add that there was a time when "train" meant a wagon train. (I
came across this in a contemporary account of Revolutionary War soliders
raiding a "British train" - no railways yet!)

The word shifted meaning as the technology changed.