The waiter said it was on the way--by slow freight, his tone suggested.
If they had, they certainly wouldn't have sent me here slow freight.
As a measure of economy, however, I put some of the heavier baggage on the shoreward parts, to go as slow freight.
This is slow freight.
"It's a slow freight," he said.
Quadruple track is mostly used when there are local trains that stop often (or slow freight trains), and also faster inter-city or high-speed trains.
I could let them get within speaking distance, and then pull out like the Congressional Limited passing a slow freight.
Lambda class were designed for slow freight inside the Hegemonic sphere; that's all they're good for.
As a means of passenger transportation, I consider the glacier a failure; but as a vehicle of slow freight, I think she fills the bill.
Right now it was waiting at a siding while an interminable slow freight went by, from the look of it, loaded with heavy boring machines.