A very fast train.
1859. The scenery of a long tragic drama flashed through his mind as the lightning-express-train whishes by a station.—Holmes, ‘The Professor at the Breakfast-Table,’ chap. vi.
1861. There is now a lightning train between the cities of Washington and New York.—Mr. Colfax of Indiana, House of Repr., March 2: Cong. Globe, p. 1419.
