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Old 12-20-2006, 03:54 PM
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Originally Posted by CFHollister View Post
I wouldn't be surprised if the vehicle train was derived from an earier meaning of "train" which simply meant any number of things that were both connected and moving.

In the French it came to be used to describe temporally related actions.
Could be. Etymology is always odd and funny when very old expressions are concerned
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