Her scream split up the silence of the car, accompanied by the rattling of the freight, and then Cappy came off the floor, his legs driving him hard.

As the number of reported freight car loadings increased, this was taken to indicate increased industrial activity, and consequently increased stock earnings, implying fatter dividends, and implying therefore increased stock market prices.

Bettendorf-style freight car truck displayed at the Illinois Railway Museum.

A version of the archbar truck was at one time also used on US Railway car # Freight cars | freight cars

Since the early 1980s, Smyril Line has operated a regular international passenger, car and freight service using a large, modern, multipurpose ferry, the Norröna.

* International Railway Systems, a Romanian freight railroad car producer

Also, the wear a freight car or building undergoes depends not only on age but where it is used.

* Tank car, a railroad freight car designed for carrying bulk liquids

" Lorry " has a more uncertain origin, but probably has its roots in the railroad industry, where the word is known to have been used in 1838 to refer to a type of truck ( a freight car as in British usage, not a bogie as in the American ), specifically a large flat wagon.

SeaLink operates the Island Navigator, a passenger, car and freight ferry, operating from Wynyard Wharf in Auckland city to Tryphena ( several times weekly ) and Port Fitzroy every Tuesday.

This line, without any major shippers on it to make it profitable, was used for freight car storage for a time in the early 1980s and then was abandoned with 25. 3 miles of the route lifted after May 1985, although the right of way still exists, with some portions paved as local streets.

In 1874, a boulder struck a freight car and sent five cars down the embankment and into the Delaware River at Pond Eddy.

The line remained open for freight until 1984, including serving the MG car factory, which opened in 1929 and closed in October 1980 as part of a British Leyland rationalisation plan.

Despite its status as a major integrated steel maker, Bethlehem Steel Freight Car Division pioneered the use of aluminum in freight car construction.

The New York Central Railroad 69th Street Transfer Bridge | New York Central 69th " bridge " used to transfer freight by car float across the Hudson, now in Riverside Park South.

In 1904, he won fame as a local hero after he leapt onto a runaway railroad freight car on Shattuck Avenue in downtown Berkeley and applied its brakes, preventing a disastrous collision with a passenger coach loaded with commuters at the Berkeley Station.

* Schnabel car: specialized freight car for heavy or oversized loads.

At a railroad crossing, the truck quietly approaches Mann's car from behind and starts pushing the Valiant towards a passing freight train.

The first full car of freight came over the line to Ahnapee ( now Algoma, Wisconsin ) in September 1892.

The freight was ferried across by the competing railroads with small fleets of towboats, barges, and 323 car floats, specially designed barges with rails so cars could be rolled on.

At the terminal, shipping containers are loaded from one freight car to another, and classification yards ( marshalling yards ) are used to sort freight cars into trains and divide them according to varying destinations.

Ludie hopped rides on freight cars, and was chased by Mr. Yankton, the railroad guard.

The railroads have responded by adding 20,000 more box cars with doors 12' or wider for forklift unloading ( a 21% increase while the total number of box cars was falling 6% ) and by cutting their freight rates twice on lumber shipped in heavily loaded cars.

That kind of poverty was regarded as the exclusive property of the East, which created depressions with their stock markets and their congested populations and their greedy centralization of industries, protected by discriminatory freight rates.

From 1882 the village was served by Aberfoyle railway station, the terminus of the Strathendrick and Aberfoyle Railway which connected to Glasgow via Dumbarton or Kirkintilloch The station closed to passenger traffic in 1951, and the remaining freight services ceased in 1959.

In 2005, the public company was split into 2 companies: Infrabel, which manages the rail network and SNCB itself, which manages the freight and passenger services.

Passengers replaced freight as the main source of business, and one third of the network was closed by the Beeching Axe of the 1960s.

In 2007, the traffic on the line was estimated to be 1Mt per year freight, including 1 million passengers per year.

Falls of Clyde is a well-preserved example of a more conservatively designed, slower contemporary of the clippers, which was built for general freight in 1878.

In the early 1950s, an extension to Dimona and south was constructed from the Railway to Beersheba, designed for freight traffic.

This steam locomotive dating from the 1930s still operates, carrying both freight and tourists. As of 1999, there was a total of 317 kilometres of ( narrow gauge ) rail line in Eritrea.

However, given the right problem, the use of an appropriate 4GL can be spectacularly successful as was seen with MARK-IV and MAPPER ( see History Section, Santa Fe real-time tracking of their freight cars – the productivity gains were estimated to be 8 times over COBOL ).

The main runway was upgraded, improvements were made in freight landing and infrastructure, and the terminal building and the airport's navigational aids were upgraded.

Not only was good passenger service established by the late 1840s, but an excellent network of freight lines reduce the cost of shipping coal, and made products manufactured in Scotland competitive throughout Britain.

The opening was marred by problems, due to the primitive nature of the technology being employed, however problems were gradually ironed out and the railway became highly successful, transporting passengers and freight.

The freight handled by motor vehicles, mainly trucks, in 1990, was over 6 billion tonnes, accounting for 90 percent of domestic freight tonnage and about 50 percent of tonne-kilometres.

Krupp was the first company to patent a seamless, reliable and strong enough railroad tire for rail freight.

Union Pacific Railroad operated the largest fleet of gas turbine-electric locomotives in the world, and was the only railroad to use them for hauling freight in regular service.

However Masuria was still largely agrarian-oriented and suffered from the economic decline after World War I, additionally badly affected by the creation of the Polish Corridor, which raised freight costs to the traditional markets in Germany.

In 2003 Tranz Rail was purchased by Australian freight firm Toll Holdings, which renamed the company Toll NZ.

In 1910, it was noted in a discussion with the Minister of Railways that a fruit grower at Port Albert ( near Wellsford, less than 150 km from Auckland ) had found it cheaper to ship his canned fruit to Lyttleton in the South Island by boat, and thence back to Auckland again, rather than pay rail freight rates from nearby Wellsford to Auckland.

In 1820 the Asia, 763 tons, arrived in the Medway with a foul bill from Alexandria, laden with linseed ; her freight was £ 1475 and her quarantine dues £ 610.