The freight car was cold, early in the morning.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Between February 16 and March 19, 1874, trains ran between the Texas state boundary and Red River, where passengers and freight were ferried across to Fulton, to continue by rail to their destinations.

Equipment, freight and passengers are ferried by ship through the Port of Skagway, and via road through a few of the stops along its route.

tend to hamstring freight operations across borders.

In January 2007 work began on a 3. 5 km extension of the metre-gauge State Railway of Thailand network across the Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge to Thanaleng Railway Station, a new passenger and freight terminal in Dongphosy village, 20 km east of Vientiane.

Cargo on freight trains arrives to the last station near Mazar-i-Sharif Airport, where the goods are reloaded onto trucks or airplanes and sent to their last destinations across Afghanistan.

Road transportation is the primary form of freight transport across the country.

Western Sahara has no freight or passenger service railways, with the exception of a section of the Mauritania Railway ; which ( since the closure of the Choum Tunnel ), cuts across the extreme south-eastern corner of the territory.

Since July 2011 Chongqing is officially linked to Duisburg, Germany by a freight rail across Eurasia.

During that year, it also moved 135, 000 tons of freight across its network.

* Trans-Asian Railway, a UN project to create an integrated freight railway network across Europe and Asia

This is how the original trade and shipping routes wee established and the continued need for bigger and better ships to carry both freight and passengers year around across the lake.

A Norfolk Southern Railway line runs across the north end of the county on its route between Danville, Illinois and Lafayette ; it carries about 45 freight trains each day.

When the Saint Louis-San Francisco ( Frisco ) railroad came through the area thirty years later, a small passenger and freight station was built and a post office to serve the small community was set up across the road in the back of the general store that was operated by the McNabs.

Before a railroad bridge was built across the Missouri, freight cars were pushed onto barges on one side of the river, then pulled off on the other.

Here, the tracks stopped and the freight had to be manually transported across the Brunswick and Cape Fear Rivers.

Because of the break-of-gauge at Brest, where the Russian broad gauge meets the European standard gauge, all passenger trains, coming from Poland, must have their bogies replaced here, to travel on across Belarus, and the freight must be transloaded from cars of one gauge to cars of another.

Vasco da Gama having in 1497 found his way round the Cape of Good Hope pushed his way across the Indian Ocean to the shores of Malabar and Kozhikode, attacking the fleets that carried freight and Muslim pilgrims from India to the Red Sea, and struck terror into the potentates all around.

* Australian Railroad Group, one of Australia's largest private rail operators, operating across almost 10, 000 kilometres of track and began operating in Western Australia on 17 December 2000 following its purchase of the Westrail freight business

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.

International freight traffic is concentrated to the four railways across the Russian border, but there is also a connection to the Swedish rail network in Tornio and rail ferry connections from Turku to Stockholm, Sweden, and to Travemünde, Germany.

Beginning as a one-aeroplane flight school in South Australia, O ' Connor Airlines developed, over some years, into a freight and passenger service flying to 18 regional and country centres across the state.

The Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, having found his way around the Cape and obtained pilots from the coast of Zanzibar in 1497 CE, pushed his way across the Indian Ocean to the shores of Malabar and Calicut, attacked the fleets that carried freight and Muslim pilgrims from India to the Red Sea, and struck terror into the potentates all around.

Air North also offers passenger, freight and combi charter services throughout the Yukon and across North America.

The few parts of the PRR that went to CSX after the Conrail split are ( 1 ) the western end of the Fort Wayne Line across western Ohio and northern Indiana, ( 2 ) the Pope's Creek Secondary in Maryland, just to the east of Washington, and ( 3 ) the Landover Subdivision, a former Pennsy freight line in DC which connects to Amtrak's ex-Pennsy Northeast Corridor and CSX's ex-B & O Alexandria Extension on the north end and CSX's RF & P Subdivision on the south end via the ex-Pennsy " Long Bridge " across the Potomac River.