"freight" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Jackson & Woodin Manufacturing Company, also called Jackson & Woodin Car Works, was an American railroad freight car manufacturing company of the late 19th century headquartered in Berwick, Pennsylvania.
- In 1887, Congress created the Interstate Commerce Commission which was tasked with enforcing equal rates for all railroad freight, but by then Standard was depending more on pipeline transport.
- As a result, railroad freight grew about 20 times from 20 to 400 billion tonne-km by 1941.
- By 2010 there was reported to be a growing share of railroad freight being diverted to highway trucks.
- His efforts on behalf of railroad freight have brought him into conflict with Assemblywoman Catherine T. Nolan, a Queens Democrat who also sits on the M.T.A. Capital Program Review Board.
- A 1920 book on railroad freight defines the term as follows:
- He became a railroad freight and ticket agent in 1848.
- His appearance brought to mind the outcasts of Bill's Bar & Grill by the railroad freight yards.
- However, with the coming of the railroad, local businessmen could see the advantage of being located close to the railroad freight and passenger stations so they moved their establishments north to the west side of the tracks.
- He headed the first attempt to legislate railroad freight and aided in framing proposals for fixing rates and outlawing discrimination on that basis.
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