For ten days we'd been following an immigrant train--a large one, with more than one hundred wagons in it.

Although the Shoshones under Pocatello's lead did terrorize settlers and immigrant trains, such acts were largely retaliatory in nature and done in hope of securing equal and humane treatment.

After a while there was a daily immigrant train put on.

Western railway companies like the Union Pacific built immigrant lodging-houses and segregated eating-places at stations throughout the West, and attempted to keep immigrant and normal trains separate, but this proved to be impossible at the larger stations.

His father and grandfather came to town in 1920 on a boxcar, on the so-called immigrant trains.

Otterburn Park was the scene of the St-Hilaire train disaster in 1864, in which nearly 100 people were killed when an immigrant train failed to stop at an open swing bridge and fell into the Richelieu.

Others guarded army paymasters and immigrant trains between Utah and California.

June 29 - St-Hilaire train disaster, Beloeil, Quebec, Canada: 99 killed when an immigrant train fails to stop at an open swing bridge and falls into the Richelieu River.

It describes Stevenson's arrival at New York as an immigrant, along with hundreds of other Europeans, and his train journey from New York to San Francisco in an immigrant train.

The immigrant train came through in 1901.