standard freight

Standard freight operations were suspended from October 1, 1971.

Towards the stern, the deck can accept standard freight containers.

"It's triple the size of the standard freight elevator.

All were give the standard freight 'Taxi' blue and grey with large numerals livery.

The smell, however, was overpowering at times, since the entire central flat carried, not standard freight or amphoras, but goats.

The RSD-7 offered 75% more dynamic braking capacity than any standard freight unit available at the time.

The 0-10-0 type was the principal standard freight locomotive in Russia and was manufactured in very large numbers.

A swap body (or swop body) is a standard freight container for road and rail transport.

The standard freight charge on the Erie Canal was three cents per ton mile and some canals charged less.

The SECR held trials in November 1898 to decide on a standard freight locomotive design.

In 2005, two powered MPV units were used for freight trials by coupling standard freight wagons between in between the pairs.

The standard freight scheme from 1972 until the BNSF merger was dark blue with yellow on the front, with the same color division as the warbonnet scheme.

In the airline and some other transportation industries, a counter-to-counter package is a quicker (and more expensive) alternative to standard freight for the shipment of small parcels and envelopes.

Originally painted DSER green, on becoming part of the GSR, they were painted in standard freight livery of unlined dark battleship grey.

The Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (TTCI) in Pueblo, CO has been conducting tests using a portable ride quality monitoring system attached to a standard freight car.

The aim was to create a series of standard freight and passenger locomotives for use throughout Britain, and meant that Clayton was privy to the latest GWR developments in steam design.

The handling time for freight dropped considerably, as containers could be easily removed from the trains in each community and the loading/unloading at Port aux Basques was significantly improved over standard freight cars.

During the Second World War the War Department (WD) originally chose the Class 8F as its standard freight locomotive and large numbers of them saw service overseas, notably in the Middle East.

The designer, Hugh L. Cooper from New York, designed the bridge to hold a dead load of 4800 pounds per linear foot, which he claimed was a weight far greater than any standard freight train at the time.

On the outbreak of the Second World War, the design was chosen to become the country's standard freight design, reprising the role the GCR Class 8K had in the First World War.

The ROD requisitioned many diverse locomotives from Britain's railway companies, but as the war dragged on adopted the Great Central Railway's Robinson Class 8K 2-8-0 as its standard freight locomotive to become the ROD 2-8-0.

However there were constraints, including the capacity of the line at that time operated in single track mode in the Fréjus tunnel because of construction work, and the need to ensure continuity of existing rail traffic, passenger and intermodal and standard freight.

While the cars operated by George D. Burton closely resembled the Arms design, the Keystone Company's cars were much more utilitaran in design as they were intended for transporting animals of lesser value and inclusion in standard freight train consists.