How to Use passenger train in a Sentence

passenger train

noun
  • Some insist on a passenger train.
    — Susan Shelley, Oc Register, 7 May 2026
  • Twelve were killed — 11 on the passenger train and the car’s driver.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2026
  • But the bandits showed up early and instead held up a passenger train along the same track.
    — Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 8 Mar. 2025
  • The crash started when a passenger train slammed into a stationary freight train.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 6 June 2023
  • The impact of the collision left the passenger train's restaurant car on top of two other cars.
    — Will Gretsky, ABC News, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Union Pacific owns the tracks where the passenger train derailed.
    — Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 7 May 2026
  • In a picture posted to the platform, a work vehicle appears just feet away from the passenger train.
    — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Just eight minutes later, an Amtrak passenger train derailed from the bridge.
    — Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Greece has erupted in anger following the crash last Tuesday between a freight train and a passenger train.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 5 Mar. 2023
  • If a passenger train were to operate, its top speed would be 59 mph, too slow to compete with highway travel.
    — F.k. Plous, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2026
  • When the wall is completed, probably in less than a month, passenger train service is expected to resume.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2024
  • By the way, the Southern Crescent, the passenger train referred to in the song, is real, and still runs today.
    — Spin Editors, SPIN, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Thousands of white people began to pour into Owensboro by passenger train, freight train, bus, car, airplane, and on foot.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The storm brought record rains, caused widespread river flooding and touched off landslides that shut down Amtrak passenger train service.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Rescuers used iron rods and ropes to work free one carriage of the passenger train that had been swept upwards to lodge on the roof of the freight train by the impact of the collision.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 17 June 2024
  • This is another Mexican passenger train that’s no longer running.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2026
  • At the end of January, five people were killed when drones hit a passenger train in the Kharkiv region, setting three carriages on fire.
    — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 10 Feb. 2026
  • There is something magical about standing near the rails as a passenger train glides past, skis stacked inside the cars and tired but happy skiers heading home after a day on the slopes.
    — Sponsored Content, Denver Post, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The 2023 train disaster in Tempe saw a passenger train collide head-on with an oncoming freight train.
    — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Later, the host dons a hard hat to tour a multi-billion-dollar, decades-long project that will ease freight and passenger train bottlenecks with new bridges and underpasses.
    — Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The passenger train had changed lanes and switched to a cargo track before the collision, according to ERT.
    — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Harry was filmed Thursday morning arriving at a Kyiv station on an overnight passenger train from Poland.
    — ABC News, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The passenger train is intended to boost the regional economy and increase tourism by connecting key cities in the Midwest.
    — Katherine Loren, Journal Sentinel, 31 July 2024
  • Part of the first passenger train jumped the tracks and hit cars in another passenger train that was passing in the opposite direction in the eastern state of Odisha.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 6 June 2023
  • The last passenger train before then departed Union Depot in 1971.
    — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 21 May 2024
  • More than 300 people were onboard the high-speed passenger train heading to Kosice, Slovakia, at the time of the collision.
    — Evan Rosen, New York Daily News, 6 June 2024
  • The young Hope blossomed into the mid-20th century with daily passenger train service, two hotels, three movie theaters, and shops and cafes.
    — Sarah D. Wire, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2024
  • The man was apparently walking on the tracks when he was hit by an Amtrak passenger train, causing massive injuries, authorities said.
    — Harry Harris, Mercury News, 24 Dec. 2025
  • While major improvements in the passenger train travel arena are being made, there have been notable project cancellations and postponements.
    — Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
  • In 2005, at least two dozen people were killed when a crowded passenger train slammed into a stationary cargo train in the western state of Gujarat.
    — Dan Bilefsky, New York Times, 2 June 2023

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