Rode / took the train

I am not a teacher. I think all the following are correct.
The more specific are the first two.

1. We boarded the train to New York.
2. We got on the train to New York.
3. We rode the train to New York. (rode is also used to mean to travel in a vehicle, not necessarily as a driver)
4. We took the train to New York.

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tinanam0102We rode the train to New York.

It is grammatical but no idiomatic.
Normal and natural collocation is " We took the train to New York". Another way to say it would be: We went to New York by train.

Hi,

Can you please explain why "we rode the train to New York" is a problem? I looked up the dictionary, it says, where I underlined the part. Is it really the collocation of word choice? But how can a dictionary tell us differently?


a : to travel to a place as a passenger on or in (something that is moving, such as a bus, a train, or an eleva